ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,558, issued on June 24.
"Pear feeding method and apparatus for multi-lane processing" was invented by Biagio Crescenzo (Salerno, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pear feeder for multi-lane processing has, on a frame (1), a shuffle feeder (2), a plurality of chutes (3), a plurality of feed channels (4), small belts (5) running on respective pairs of belt holder pulleys (9, 90) mounted on each feed channel (4) and moved by a motor (10) through a first transverse shaft (11) so as to be transmitted to the belts (5) a retrograde motion with respect to the pear advancement and allow each pear to continue advancing along its own advan...