US Patent Issued to MINCH MALT on July 15 for "Grain sorting process" (British, Croatian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,025, issued on July 15, was assigned to MINCH MALT Ltd. (The Maltings Athy, Ireland).

"Grain sorting process" was invented by Peter Zsoldos (Colchester, Great Britain) and Ivan Calusic (Resetari, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Grain sorting process and apparatus include a grain infeed chute for delivery of bulk cereal grain into the apparatus past an in-line measurement station which analyses selected parameters of the grain discharged onto a horizontal grain sorting conveyor and into storage silos in response to the measured parameters. The measurement station has a sensor unit which includes a near-infrared light source for...