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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Bloom Automation, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Inventor:
Jon Thomas Gowa, Medford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Bloom Automation, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 3/08 (2006.01); B23K 26/03 (2006.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01); A01G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 3/08 (2013.01); A01B 69/008 (2013.01); A01G 5/00 (2013.01); B23K 26/032 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45003 (2013.01);
Abstract
The automated trimming of an untrimmed plant stem comprises a device for transporting an untrimmed plant stem to an imaging stage, using a camera to capture at least one image of the plant stem, sending the at least one image to a central processor which creates a trim map which constructs a pattern for moving a cutting armature along the plant stem, and trimming the plant stem by cutting structure of the cutting armature to change the untrimmed plant stem to a trimmed plant stem.