ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,698, issued on May 26, was assigned to AB HOLDINGS LLC (Boise, Idaho).
"Methods for carcass preparation in beef processing" was invented by Jesse Castaneda (Yakima, Wash.), Shaun Walk (Yakima, Wash.), Roman Lupercio (Sunnyside, Wash.), Luis Rodriguez (Yakima, Wash.), Craig Smith (Yakima, Wash.), Kevin Lawson (Yakima, Wash.), Denine Trump (Prosser, Wash.) and Jeff Cromer (Yakima, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including, after at least hide removal and pathogen cleaning of a beef carcass, performing two or more carcass preparation operations on the beef carcass in a carcass preparation room that is separate from other hi...