Patent 10912309 was granted and assigned to Tyson Foods on February, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An method for processing pork belly trim to produce bacon pieces where pork belly trim is size reduced and cooked. One implementation of the technology includes initial cooking and separating the product and distributing the product evenly on a conveyor. The step of initial cooking and separation is utilized because depending on the amount of size reduction and the type of size reduction, the product will tend to lump together. Therefore, in one implementation of the technology, an initial step of initial cooking and separation is utilized.