US Patent Issued to FPI Food Processing Innovation on Jan. 27 for "Method, devices and arrangements for locating bony parts present in a poultry leg" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,436, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FPI Food Processing Innovation GmbH & Co. KG (Lubeck, Germany).

"Method, devices and arrangements for locating bony parts present in a poultry leg" was invented by Christoph Fabian Isernhagen (Lubeck, Germany), Oliver Schlesiger (Lubeck, Germany) and Florian Jarck (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, arrangement and apparatus are provided for training at least one neural network for locating bony parts present in a poultry leg. The method includes the steps: conveying the poultry legs in a conveying direction by a conveying device; acquiring digital images of the front side...