ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,573, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH & Co. KG (Lubeck, Germany).

"Apparatuses and methods for automatedly saddling beheaded and eviscerated fish on holding apparatuses for automated further processing and for automatedly obtaining meat from beheaded and eviscerated fish" was invented by Carsten Paulsohn (Lubeck, Germany), Roland Pein (Lubeck, Germany), Arne Pfuhl (Lubeck, Germany), Simon Reincke (Lubeck, Germany), Thomas Russ (Lubeck, Germany) and Felix Strangmann (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for saddling fish on holding apparatuses for further processing c...