US Patent Issued to 4AG Robotics on March 25 for "Automated mushroom harvesting system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,678, issued on March 25, was assigned to 4AG Robotics Inc. (Salmon Arm, Canada).

"Automated mushroom harvesting system" was invented by Michael Howard Boudreau (Salmon Arm, Canada), Kyran Ashley Lawrence Findlater (Salmon Arm, Canada), James Boyd Gibson (Salmon Arm, Canada) and Clark Allan Richardson (Salmon Arm, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated mushroom harvesting system for mounting to a vertical mushroom rack comprises a robot having a frame mounted to a vertical carriage assembly. A SCARA arm is slidably mounted to the vertical carriage assembly by a vertical stage, operable to move the SCARA arm along a vertic...