ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,828, issued on July 14, was assigned to AIO Farm Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Device and method for classifying fruits" was invented by Hojae Gwak (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device and method for identifying fruits that sorts fruits by sequentially sorting a plurality of fruits which are input, generating image data, determining the grade of each fruit based on the weight of the fruit, and determining a defective state or a normal state by using a defect feature certainty."
The patent was filed on July 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/351,165.
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