US Patent Issued to Dalhousie University on April 7 for "Apparatus and method of recording a storage location by size for harvested tubers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,136, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada).

"Apparatus and method of recording a storage location by size for harvested tubers" was invented by Ahmad Al-Mallahi (Truro, Canada), Ighodaro Emwinghare (Truro, Canada) and Colton Campbell (Truro, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method of determining a storage location by size for harvested tubers deposited by a bin piler are provided. The method may comprise: capturing one or more images of the harvested tubers; segmenting individual tuber depictions visible in the images; determining one or more shape characteristics for a plur...