US Patent Issued to Cargill on Sept. 29 for "Sliced rare, medium rare and medium cooked roast beef in modified atmosphere packaging" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,051, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Sliced rare, medium rare and medium cooked roast beef in modified atmosphere packaging" was invented by Garret John Dietz (Mount Hope, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing long-shelf life sliced rare, medium rare, and medium cooked roast beef comprises providing whole beef portions; cooking the whole beef portions to an internal temperature of from about 130 to 160deg F. to form cooked roast beef portions; slicing the cooked roast beef portions to form sliced cooked roast beef having an average thickness of from about 0.5 mm to 10 mm; disp...