US Patent Issued to Tokuiten on Oct. 7 for "Produce harvesting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,196, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tokuiten Inc..

"Produce harvesting device" was invented by Hiroki Mori (Nagoya, Japan), Shota Nonoyama (Nagoya, Japan), Ryusuke Nishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Fumio Okuno (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A produce harvesting device includes a cylindrical member; a rotating member that forms a through-hole member; and a rotation driving unit that drives the rotating member to rotate about a virtual axis. The rotating member is configured to: when the rotating member comes into contact with the fruit or vegetable while rotating, twist the fruit or vegetable relative to a stem of the fru...