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Article: Patent No. 7,572,176 Issued on Aug. 11, Assigned to Bettcher Industries for Poultry Carcasses Counting Method (Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas Inventors)
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- August 14, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 14 -- James A. Petersen of Gainesville, Ga., Brian Porter of Watson, Okla., and Robert Scott of Fort Smith, Ark., have developed a method of counting poultry carcasses. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,572,176 on Aug. 11.
The patent has been assigned to Bettcher Industries Inc., Birmingham, Ohio.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of counting poultry carcasses conveyed by an overhead shackle conveying system. Poultry carcasses are suspended from shackles of an overhead conveying system and moved ...