ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,830, issued on June 23, was assigned to Scott Technology Ltd. (Dunedin, New Zealand).
"Trussing system and method" was invented by Peter Douglas Raymond Knotts (Avonhead, New Zealand), Bryan Gordon Grimshaw (Sumner, New Zealand) and Jamie Robert Spyker (Linwood, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for trussing a slaughtered bird, is described the apparatus including: two or more members having trussing band retaining members, wherein the apparatus is configured to truss a slaughtered bird with a trussing band. Also described is a slaughtered bird holder, a method for trussing's a slaughtered bird, a vision system ...