ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,449, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES AND REGIONAL PLANNING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Credible fruit traceability method and device based on fruit texture atlas and blockchain" was invented by Jianping Qian (Beijing), Wenbin Wu (Beijing), Yun Shi (Beijing), Qiangyi Yu (Beijing) and Peng Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a credible fruit traceability method and device based on fruit texture atlas and blockchain. According to the present invention, images of fruit pedicel part and fruit navel part of a single fruit are obtained, a...