ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,467, issued on March 11, was assigned to Weber Food Technology GmbH (Breidenbach, Germany).
"Slicing apparatus" was invented by Sigfrid Bauer (GroB Teetzleben, Germany) and Axel Zimansky (Neubrandenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slicing apparatus for slicing food products into slices comprises a feeding unit configured to feed products along a feeding direction into a cutting region in which a blade for slicing the products into slices is arranged, wherein the feeding unit comprises a moving device that is configured to move the products into the cutting region, and wherein the moving device comprises a transporting ...