ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,717, issued on July 8, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"Automatic separator for peel and pulp of holboellia latifolia wall" was invented by Wei Wang (Beijing), Yao Lu (Beijing), Shuxian Song (Beijing), Qinglin Wang (Beijing), Beibei Jia (Beijing) and Yi Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic separator for peel and pulp of Holboellia latifolia Wall is provided: the cooperation between a pressure roller set (9) and a scraping plate (11) is used for pressing and separating the peel and pulp of Holboellia latifolia Wall; a shell (2) surrounded by four rectangular plates which are perpendicular t...