ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,490, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY and ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY.

"Path planning method and apparatus for tomato inspection robot, device, medium, and product" was invented by Yun Zhao (Hangzhou City, China), Fubo Li (Hangzhou City, China), Xing Xu (Hangzhou City, China), Yong He (Hangzhou City, China), Bingquan Chu (Hangzhou City, China) and Na Wu (Hangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a path planning method and apparatus for a tomato inspection robot. The method includes updating a weight of a heuristic function under a previous iteration ordinal number based on ...