ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,040, issued on April 29, was assigned to Reemoon Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiangxi, China).

"Fruit sorting apparatus and method" was invented by Er Zhu (Ganzhou, China), Yi Zhu (Ganzhou, China) and Haitao Liu (Ganzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fruit sorting apparatus and method are provided. The fruit sorting apparatus includes: a control unit, a conveying assembly, a detection assembly, fruit cups, a plurality of fixing assemblies and a plurality of detection units, wherein the control unit is configured to receive a plurality of pieces of detection information, and match detection information corresponding to a fruit cup of...