US Patent Issued to Nova-Tech Engineering on March 24 for "Rear-facing poultry claw system and method" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,098, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nova-Tech Engineering LLC (Willmar, Minn.).

"Rear-facing poultry claw system and method" was invented by Matthew H. Erickson (Spicer, Minn.), Austin Mueller (Atwater, Minn.), JadiMarie Hopp (Hector, Minn.), Derek Worcester (Willmar, Minn.), Christopher J. Strand (Willmar, Minn.), Dominic Oerter (Sunburg, Minn.), Scott Schueler (Willmar, Minn.) and Marc Zinda (Spicer, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rear-facing poultry claw systems and methods are described herein. In one or more embodiments, the positioning systems and methods may be used to detect the claw of the rear-facing toe on one ...