US Patent Issued to Elite Sigma Solution, Eggstone, Geonwoo Solution on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus for sorting raw coffee beans based on defect detection" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,713, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Elite Sigma Solution LLC (Vancouver, Wash.), Eggstone Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and Geonwoo Solution (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for sorting raw coffee beans based on defect detection" was invented by Samuel Seok Jae Jeong (Vancouver, Wash.), In Jae Chung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Ji Hoon Chung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bean defect sorter includes a container configured to store beans, a transfer guide configured to receive the beans from the container and to guide each bean in series, the transfer guide being configured to discharge the beans one by one...