ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,636, issued on Sept. 2.
"Meat processing assembly" was invented by Phil Bifulco (Parkland, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for processing meat travelling along a path of travel and including a marking roller disposed transverse to the path of travel and including at least one but preferably a plurality of marking sections rotatable with the marking roller. Each of the marking sections includes at least one marking member rotatable therewith and extending outwardly therefrom into penetrating relation to meat passing along the path of travel. Penetration of each marking member into the meat produces a mark such as, but ...