Tagging of fruit-producing flowers for robotic selective harvesting

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9913429
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15353500

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The locations of flowers on a plant, rather than the locations of agricultural products produced from such flowers, are used to facilitate the performance of harvesting and other agricultural operations in robotic agricultural applications. In some implementations, the identified location of a fruit-producing flower may be used by a robotic device to apply an indicator tag to a flowering plant proximate the flower for later identification when performing various types of directed and automated agricultural operations. In other implementations, the identified location of a fruit-producing flower may be used by a robotic device to anchor a stem of a flowering plant to a predetermined location such that the location of the flower, and of any fruit(s) later produced by such flower, are controlled and/or known when performing subsequent agricultural operations.

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  • X DEVELOPMENT LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
McCloskey, Kevin James Fleming Berkeley, US 3 17
Stubbs, Mark Adrian Felton, US 9 28

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