US Patent Issued to J.C. Ford on Aug. 25 for "Chip chopper system" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,156, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to J.C. Ford Co. (Columbia, Tenn.).

"Chip chopper system" was invented by Scott David Ruhe (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Jason Paul Pealo (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Keith Edward Wilkey (Franklin, Tenn.), Manuel Maldonado (Montclair, Calif.) and Ray Hammoud (Columbia, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for cutting a food product can include a support frame, an infeed conveyor, a discharge conveyor, and/or one or more cutting assemblies. The infeed conveyor and the discharge conveyor can be support by the support frame, with the one or more cutting assemblies operationally positioned between the inf...