ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,877, issued on March 31, was assigned to MIGAL GALILEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD. (Kiryat Shmona, Israel).

"Measuring deformation threshold of produce" was invented by Shaul Naschitz (Kibbutz El-Rom, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a testing device comprising: a probe configured to be advanced to engage a produce item positioned in relation to the testing device, and at least one sensor configured to measure a resisting force by the produce item to the advancing; at least one hardware processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions, the program instru...