US Patent Issued to Geonwoo Solution, Eggstone, Elite Sigma Solution on June 30 for "Apparatus for sorting raw coffee beans based on defect detection" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,866, issued on June 30, was assigned to Geonwoo Solution (Seoul, South Korea), Eggstone Co. LTD (Seoul, South Korea) and Elite Sigma Solution LLC (Vancouver, Wash.).

"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), Ji Hoon Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Shin Won Yu (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 ...