US Patent Issued to Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences on May 27 for "Harvesting method of snap-off picking gripper, and snap-off harvesting gripper" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,288, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (Beijing).

"Harvesting method of snap-off picking gripper, and snap-off harvesting gripper" was invented by Ya Xiong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent describes a method and apparatus for harvesting fruits using a snap-off harvesting gripper. The method includes the following steps: identifying the pose of a target fruit according to an image perception; controlling the gripper to grip the target according to the pose; monitoring an acting force of the gripper acted on the fruit to be ha...