US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 8 for "Harvesting device for plucking or cutting fruit based on pedicel angle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,627, issued on July 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Harvesting device for plucking or cutting fruit based on pedicel angle" was invented by Keiichiro Shimomura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting device includes: an upper harvest ring that an object grown on a plant is to be inserted into; a lower harvest ring that is disposed below the upper harvest ring and that the object is to be inserted into; a first drive mechanism that moves at least one of the upper harvest ring and the lower harvest ring; and a controller. The controller determines one of a first h...