US Patent Issued to Tokuiten on Aug. 5 for "Produce harvesting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,524, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tokuiten Inc..

"Produce harvesting device" was invented by Hiroki Mori (Nagoya, Japan), Shota Nonoyama (Nagoya, Japan), Yuta Mizukami (Nagoya, Japan), Taro Tako (Nagoya, Japan) and Rintaro Konno (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A produce harvesting device includes a cylindrical member that defines a guide passage therein through which a fruit or vegetable passes toward a rear side; an annular member that radially extends from an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical member into the guide passage and defines a through hole that passes through the annular member from a front...