US Patent Issued to MAYEKAWA on Sept. 1 for "Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,355, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MAYEKAWA MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method" was invented by Naoya Kashihara (Tokyo), Motomasa Tanaka (Tokyo) and Shinji Hane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meat-attached matter removal device includes a camera configured to detect a posture of a deboned meat and a position of an attached matter, which is attached to the deboned meat, with respect to the posture of the deboned meat, a pair of gripping arms that is moved to the position of the attached matter based on a detection result of the camera, that is configured to...