US Patent Issued to Tyson Foods on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for slicing and processing whole muscle" (Illinois, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,633, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Tyson Foods Inc. (Springdale, Ark.).

"Method and apparatus for slicing and processing whole muscle" was invented by Kent Michael Bearson (Naperville, Ill.), Dejing Fu (Lisle, Ill.) and Kazimierz Jachym (Springdale, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for improving processing whole muscle for a thinly slice meat item, such as a meat item for Philly Cheese Steaks. One implementation of the method and apparatus as disclosed and claimed herein includes grounding whole muscle and pumping the ground whole muscle through an in-line rotary multi-blade slicer and further extruding t...