US Patent Issued to MAF AGROBOTIC on Feb. 25 for "Process and system for conveying fruit and vegetables with an oriented stalk" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,103, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to MAF AGROBOTIC (Montauban, France).

"Process and system for conveying fruit and vegetables with an oriented stalk" was invented by Philippe Blanc (Montauban, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method for transporting objects belonging to the group of fruits and vegetables with a stalk, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: conveying a plurality of objects (18) on a conveyor line (12) in a longitudinal forward direction (14), each conveyed object being carried by a support (16) that is moved by the conveyor line (12) according to its longitudinal forw...