US Patent Issued to Aussie Wine Group Holdings on July 8 for "Apparatus for sorting and removing contaminating matter from mechanically harvested fruit" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,712, issued on July 8, was assigned to Aussie Wine Group Holdings Pty Ltd. (Stirling, Australia).

"Apparatus for sorting and removing contaminating matter from mechanically harvested fruit" was invented by Malcolm Villis (Woodside, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separation apparatus for separating fruit from other plant matter from harvested plant material, the apparatus comprising a conveyor system that defines a first separation system, a second separation system located at least partially above the first separation system comprising an array of rotatable rollers to convey harvested plant material in an upstream to downs...