ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,694, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sihui Dai (Changsha, China).

"Automatic watermelon inspection apparatus" was invented by Sihui Dai (Hunan, China), Jingjing Huang (Hunan, China), Ming Li (Hunan, China), Ting Zou (Hunan, China), Yongwei Xu (Guangdong, China), Heming Hu (Hunan, China), Hongduo Zhang (Hunan, China), Zhiwei Wang (Hunan, China), Liang Zhang (Hunan, China), Jinqi Huang (Hunan, China), Hao Xiong (Hunan, China), Yunong Zhou (Hunan, China), Wenting Zhou (Hunan, China), Siping Yu (Hunan, China) and XiongWei Gong (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic watermelon inspection apparatus includes a weighing a...