US Patent Issued to BAADER Food Systems Denmark on March 24 for "Apparatus and method for cutting open a slaughtered poultry body which is suspended by the legs and has already been cut free in the region of the cloaca to form a vent opening" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,130, issued on March 24, was assigned to BAADER Food Systems Denmark A/S (Trige, Denmark).

"Apparatus and method for cutting open a slaughtered poultry body which is suspended by the legs and has already been cut free in the region of the cloaca to form a vent opening" was invented by Torben Andersen (Trige, Denmark) and Bendt Soerensen (Trige, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cutting open a slaughtered poultry body suspended by the legs and already cut free in the region of the cloaca to form a vent opening includes a supporting apparatus for holding/positioning the poultry body during cutting, a tensioning d...