ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,565, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Freddy Hirsch Group AG (Hunenberg, Switzerland).
"Apparatus and method for manufacturing sausages" was invented by Hermann August Schultz (Cape Town, South Africa), Heindrich Fritz (Amsterdam) and Jacobus Martin Laubscher (Somerset West, South Africa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus 10 for manufacturing sausages comprising a meat filler and a settable alginate gel casing paste forming a circumfused casing layer on the filler surface of the filler, includes a rotatable coextrusion head 12 for coextruding the filler and the casing paste so as to form a continuous sausage rope...