US Patent Issued to Foodmate on Oct. 27 for "Poultry processing system for inline processing a poultry carcass front half" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,984, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Foodmate B.V. (Numansdorp, Netherlands).

"Poultry processing system for inline processing a poultry carcass front half" was invented by Marvin Edward Trayler (Perry, Ga.) and Timothy Scott Burrell (Ellijay, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A poultry processing system for inline processing a poultry carcass front half, the system including a mandrel, a conveyor and a poultry processing station. The mandrel has a plane of symmetry in a vertical orientation for supporting a carcass front half having a neck end and a tail end. The conveyor conveys the mandrel in a horizontal conveyance direction....