ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,050, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HARVEST CROO LLC (Plant City, Fla.).
"Automated inspection of crops" was invented by Robert Henry Pitzer (Tampa, Fla.), Alexander Scott Bicigo (Tampa, Fla.) and Santosh Bhusal (Brandon, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including one or more inspectors each configured to automatically inspect crops individually to classify the crops into a classification including two or more classes. The system also can include one or more respective separators associated with each of the one or more inspectors. The one or more respective separators can be configured to automatically physically se...