ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,272, issued on July 22, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Fruit post-harvest disinfection and conveying production line" was invented by Di Wu (Hangzhou, China), Dandan Zheng (Hangzhou, China), Xiangzheng Yang (Hangzhou, China), Chongde Sun (Hangzhou, China) and Kunsong Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fruit post-harvest disinfection and conveying production line is provided. The production line solves the problem of waxberry type fruits, that is, due to the exposed flesh, it is necessary to minimize the time that water remains on the surface of the fruit during the spraying disinfection pr...