ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,754, issued on June 23, was assigned to Xinjiang University (Urumqi City, China).

"Plum picking and grading robot and picking method" was invented by Xiaojuan Li (Urumqi City, China), Dongxu Wang (Urumqi City, China), Xiangjun Zou (Urumqi City, China), Hong Jiang (Urumqi City, China), Chao Wang (Urumqi City, China), Mingming Xiong (Urumqi City, China), Hui Zhang (Urumqi City, China), Jundong Wang (Urumqi City, China), Haining Wang (Urumqi City, China) and He Zhang (Urumqi City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a plum picking and grading robot. The plum picking and grading robot includes a base supporting mechanism, a ...