US Patent Issued to Yangzhou University on March 25 for "Device and method for electric slaughtering tortoises" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,745, issued on March 25, was assigned to Yangzhou University (Yangzhou, China).

"Device and method for electric slaughtering tortoises" was invented by Wenzhi Wei (Yangzhou, China), Chunyu Chen (Yangzhou, China) and Zhengcheng Wang (Yangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tortoise electric slaughtering device includes an electric slaughtering box, an end of the box is disposed with an outlet, a bottom wall of another end thereof is disposed with a concave area, and a discharging plate is mounted at the outlet. The box is supported on a ground through a frame, and a bottom of the box and an upper surface of the frame have a ...