US Patent Issued to 4AG Robotics on Aug. 5 for "Mushroom trimming and sorting system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,567, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to 4AG Robotics Inc. (Salmon Arm, Canada).

"Mushroom trimming and sorting system" was invented by Peter Mankowski (Vernon, Canada), Prashanth Haleyur Narayana Rao (Salmon Arm, Canada), Mehfuz A. Rahman (Blind Bay, Canada) and James Boyd Gibson (Salmon Arm, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mushroom trimming and sorting system comprises a stem trimming device, a positioning system, an imager set, and a controller operable to control the positioning system to move a single mushroom into view of the imager set, to generate an image set of the mushroom, and to process the image set (and optionally...