US Patent Issued to JBT Marel on June 23 for "Method of determining the weight of food items" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. RE50,927, issued on June 23, was assigned to JBT Marel Corp. (Chicago).

"Method of determining the weight of food items" was invented by Jon A. Hocker (Redmond, Wash.), Richard D. Stockard (San Diego) and George R. Blaine (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Calibrating the operation of a cutter used in a portioning system to cut workpieces into portions, wherein the workpiece is carried along a driven conveyance device past a scanner and then to a cutting apparatus. The calibration method employs a correction algorithm to correct for variables or limitations in the condition of one or more components of the portioning system...