Patents by Inventor Rachel E. DEMASTER

Rachel E. DEMASTER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • SELECTIVELY TREATING PLANT ITEMS
    Publication number: 20230118339
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selectively applying a treatment to a plant item and/or managing a plant item supply chain are 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, optionally conveying the at least one plant item to a treatment region, optionally determining a treatment to apply to the at least one plant item based on the assessed one or more properties; and optionally applying, in the treatment region, the treatment to the at least one plant item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew A. DeMaster, T. Howard Killilea, Rachel E. DeMaster
  • Selectively treating plant items
    Patent number: 11582979
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ComestaAg LLC
    Inventors: Andrew A. Demaster, T. Howard Killilea, Rachel E. Demaster
  • SELECTIVELY TREATING PLANT ITEMS
    Publication number: 20220095638
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: COMESTAAG LLC
    Inventors: Andrew A. DEMASTER, Howard T. KILLILEA, Rachel E. DEMASTER