US Patent Issued to Hack Harvest on Sept. 22 for "Harvester for broccoli" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,511, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hack Harvest B.V. (Kruisland, Netherlands).

"Harvester for broccoli" was invented by Petrus Johannes Maria Kriesels (Kruisland, Netherlands) and Wilhelmus Cornelis Elisabeth Hack (Kruisland, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvester for broccoli which is movable along a plant row of broccoli, the broccoli comprising a stem rising up from the ground and a head on top of the stem. The harvester includes a first wheel and a second wheel, which wheels cooperate and are generally horizontally oriented with reference to the ground from which the broccoli is standing up and from which t...