US Patent Issued to The Hillshire Brands on June 10 for "Production of precooked formed meat patties" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,439, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Hillshire Brands Co. (Chicago).

"Production of precooked formed meat patties" was invented by Kent Bearson (Naperville, Ill.), Dejing Fu (Lisle, Ill.), Frederick Dorsey (Chicago), Nicholas Miller (Downers Grove, Ill.) and Liza John (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold forming process for forming a meat patty includes heating a ground meat product to a temperature T1, wherein T1less than equal to40deg F. The ground meat product is formed into an uncooked patty at temperature T1. The uncooked patty is precooked to form a precooked patty having a skin of depth D comprisin...