US Patent Issued to THURNE-MIDDLEBY on Feb. 18 for "Feeding of food products in slicing or portioning machines" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,367, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to THURNE-MIDDLEBY LTD (Great Britain).

"Feeding of food products in slicing or portioning machines" was invented by Richard Seager (Norwich, Great Britain) and James Wakefield (Norwich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food processing machine (10) and a method of cutting slices or portions from a food product (60, 70, 72, 74) in a food processing machine are described. The food processing machine comprises a cutter (30) to cut portions from a food product and a sensing apparatus (43, 45) configured to sense a profile of the food product. The machine is arranged to control sensing an...