ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,786, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Green coffee bean identification method and green coffee bean identification system" was invented by Shu-Min Tan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Hsun Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Chiang Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A green coffee bean identification method includes obtaining an image of a green coffee bean by an image capture device, wherein the image includes pixels; reading an average value weight, a standard deviation weight, and a threshold value corresponding to the origin or the variety of green coffee beans from a memor...