US Patent Issued to Cavendish Farms on Nov. 11 for "System and blade assembly for cutting food pieces" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,096, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cavendish Farms Corp. (Dieppe, Canada).

"System and blade assembly for cutting food pieces" was invented by Jason Mackinnon (Charlottetown, Canada) and Alan Thorpe (St. Eleanors, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing blade assemblies for cutting complex three-dimensional shapes such as twisted shapes are typically slow and suffer from frequent breakdowns. Disclosed herein is a stationary blade assembly for cutting food products into complex shapes as the food products are directed along a direction of flow at the blade assembly, wherein the blade assembly comprises a plurality of blade...