US Patent Issued to AGRICULTURAL CORPORATION IOCROPS on Nov. 3 for "Method for determining a fruit to be harvested and a device for harvesting a fruit" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,015, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AGRICULTURAL CORPORATION IOCROPS INC. (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Method for determining a fruit to be harvested and a device for harvesting a fruit" was invented by Jin Hyung Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annotation method for acquiring a training data set for training a ripeness determination model for target fruits is provided. The annotation method includes the steps of: acquiring at least one image; extracting a characteristic area for the target fruits included in the at least one image; calculating a first parameter for a first color and a second parameter for a ...