US Patent Issued to Nova-Tech Engineering on July 15 for "Material delivery systems, beak opening apparatus and methods of use" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,442, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nova-Tech Engineering LLC (Willmar, Minn.).

"Material delivery systems, beak opening apparatus and methods of use" was invented by Nathan A. Blum (Cosmos, Minn.), Jeff Deming (New London, Minn.), Matthew H. Erickson (Spicer, Minn.), Scott C. Johnson (Blomkest, Minn.), James Kleven (Willmar, Minn.) and Greg R. Swenson (US, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beak opening apparatus and methods of using the same are described herein. The beak opening apparatus includes a beak splitter and beak opening actuator along with a control unit used to operate the beak opening actuator to move the beak sp...