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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2021
Comestaag Llc, Osceola, WI (US);
Andrew A. Demaster, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
T. Howard Killilea, North Oaks, MN (US);
Rachel E. Demaster, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
ComestaAg LLC, Fargo, ND (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for selectively applying a treatment to a plant item is provided. The method may include conveying, in an industrial processing line, at least one plant item in the batch of plant items to a sensing region having one or more sensors, assessing, with the one or more sensors and a computing device, one or more properties of the at least one plant item associated with ripeness and/or another attribute, conveying the at least one plant item to a treatment region, determining a treatment to apply to the at least one plant item based on the assessed one or more properties; and applying, in the treatment region, the treatment to the at least one plant item.