ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,750, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TRIUMPH FOODS LLC (St. Joseph, Mo.).
"System and method for determining backfinned loins" was invented by Nicholas Huffman (Helena, Mo.), Matthew England (Kansas City, Mo.) and David McCulloch (Amity, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a system and method for identifying one or more features in a meat sample. In one embodiment, the system and method disclosed herein uses automated methods to identify a backfinned pork loin and a non-backfinned pork loin. The system and method disclosed herein comprises imaging a meat sample with an imaging device to obtain one or more ...