US Patent Issued to Jose Borrell on May 26 for "Cracking and shelling mechanism for nuts" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,721, issued on May 26, was assigned to Jose Borrell S.A. (Denia, Spain).

"Cracking and shelling mechanism for nuts" was invented by Jose Vicente Roig Borrell (Denia, Spain) and Francisco Esteban Pastor Marti (Denia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cracking and shelling mechanism for nuts is provided with first and second elongated parallel blocks and a seesaw element which moves the blocks. The seesaw element includes a fixed central rotation shaft and rods respectively connected to the central shaft and the first or second block to cause movement of the blocks."

The patent was filed on March 15, 2022, under Application No. 17...