Patents by Inventor Hans Peter Hoste

Hans Peter Hoste has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry
    Patent number: 10244768
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry that is conveyed in a slaughter line of a slaughter house, in order to establish at the start of said slaughter line whether the poultry was alive or dead on arrival at the slaughter house. Such can include the detection of a body parameter of the slaughtered poultry when the poultry is suspended by the legs in the slaughter line after stunning said poultry, and wherein an absorption spectrum of blood of the slaughtered poultry is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Aloysius Christianus Maria Van Steijn, Hans Peter Hoste, Daniël Derksen
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SLAUGHTERED POULTRY
    Publication number: 20170290348
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry that is conveyed in a slaughter line of a slaughter house, in order to establish at the start of said slaughter line whether the poultry was alive or dead on arrival at the slaughter house. Such can include the detection of a body parameter of the slaughtered poultry when the poultry is suspended by the legs in the slaughter line after stunning said poultry, and wherein an absorption spectrum of blood of the slaughtered poultry is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Aloysius Christianus Maria Van Steijn, Hans Peter Hoste, Daniël Derksen