ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,682, issued on March 31.
"Positioning equipment and method for poultry and similar animals" was invented by Orlei Da Silva Choai (Flonanopolis, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Equipment and a method for positioning fowl that are intended to collect the processed and slaughtered animal from a horizontal conveyor belt previously aligned along the longitudinal axis, and to position the bird vertically for subsequent processing."
The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2021, under Application No. 18/681,431.
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