US Patent Issued to The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research on Jan. 13 for "Method and system for determining internal quality attribute(s) of articles of agricultural produce" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,615, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Method and system for determining internal quality attribute(s) of articles of agricultural produce" was invented by Zhe Sun (Hamilton, New Zealand), Nathaniel Kenneth Tomer (Hamilton, New Zealand), Vincent Andrew McGlone (Hamilton, New Zealand) and Rainer Kunnemeyer (Hamilton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the invention provides a method for determining at least one internal quality attribute of an article (102) of agricultural produce. The method includes receiving a plurality of fir...