US Patent Issued to Nanovel on June 9 for "Robotic unit for harvasting a fruit with a stem using vacuum and movable cutting stem elements" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,520, issued on June 9, was assigned to Nanovel LTD (Ramot Menashe, Israel).

"Robotic unit for harvasting a fruit with a stem using vacuum and movable cutting stem elements" was invented by Itzhak Mazor (Haifa, Israel), Yoram Hanfling (Pardes Hana Karkur, Israel) and Avihai Rot (Ramot Menashe, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic unit for harvesting a fruit having a stem, the robot unit may include a vacuum unit that is configured to move the fruit, by applying vacuum, towards a cutting region; and a mechanical cutting unit that is configured to mechanically cut the stem following a positioning of the fruit into the cutting ...