ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,908, issued on July 14.

"Method of preparing a meat skinner blade and meat skinner blade prepared thereby" was invented by Randall N. Herman (Waynesboro, Va.), Micah D. Herron (Waynesboro, Va.), Samuel L. Simmons (Bridgewater, Va.) and Frank Henry Prochaska (Waynesboro, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method of preparing a meat skinner blade is provided which includes: abrading an upper edge of a steel strip to form an angularly-offset two-facet blade edge; and, honing the two-facet blade edge of the steel strip to impart a vertical taper along the two facets of the two-facet blade edge. Advantageously, the subjec...