ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,905, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to A.B.L. S.R.L. (Cavezzo, Italy).
"Machine for sectioning the core of a fruit" was invented by Carlo Ascari (Cavezzo, Italy) and Daniela Ascari (Castelnuovo Rangone, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for sectioning the core of a fruit, comprising: -gripping means (2,21), provided to assume a gripping configuration, in which they hold a fruit (F) in a cutting position, and a release configuration, in which they release the fruit (F); -a tubular blade (3), concentric to a longitudinal axis (Y), which is provided with a cutting edge (31) and is movable along the longitudinal axis (Y) be...