Patents by Inventor Rainer Kunnemeyer

Rainer Kunnemeyer 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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING INTERNAL QUALITY ATTRIBUTE(S) OF ARTICLES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
    Publication number: 20230258572
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a method for determining at least one internal quality attribute of an article (102) of in agricultural produce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Zhe SUN, Nathaniel Kenneth TOMER, Vincent Andrew MCGLONE, Rainer KÜNNEMEYER
  • Method and system for determining internal quality attribute(s) of articles of agricultural produce
    Patent number: 11650162
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a method for determining at least one internal quality attribute of an article (102) of agricultural produce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventors: Zhe Sun, Nathaniel Kenneth Tomer, Vincent Andrew McGlone, Rainer Künnemeyer
  • Method and system for determining internal quality attribute(s) of articles of agricultural produce
    Patent number: 11402268
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a method for determining at least one internal quality attribute of an article (102) of agricultural produce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
    Inventors: Zhe Sun, Nathaniel Kenneth Tomer, Vincent Andrew McGlone, Rainer Künnemeyer
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING INTERNAL QUALITY ATTRIBUTE(S) OF ARTICLES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
    Publication number: 20200182696
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a method for determining at least one internal quality attribute of an article (102) of agricultural produce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Zhe SUN, Nathaniel Kenneth TOMER, Vincent Andrew MCGLONE, Rainer KÜNNEMEYER
  • Herd control and/or monitoring procedures
    Publication number: 20040074448
    Abstract: A method of herd management which includes providing each member of the herd with a device (eg; an intra vaginal device) capable of identifying the member, of sensing at least one physiological condition of the member of the herd and communicating with other such devices and/or a base station. With such communication the proximity of devices each other allows groupings to be determined such as a grouping indicative of behavioural oestrus. With such devices it is possible by monitoring groupings of the animal to determine those in oestrus and to have the device administer appropriate active ingredients to some of the animals of the herd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Craig Robert Bunt, Peter Stephen Cross, Rainer Kunnemeyer, Dale Anthony Carnegie
  • Fat depth measuring apparatus
    Patent number: 5520183
    Abstract: A fat depth measuring apparatus and method for use in measuring in an animal the depth of a fat layer between hide and muscle. An ultrasonic generator generates ultrasonic pulses and an ultrasonic echo detector generates echo signals indicative of ultrasonic pulses received by the detector after reflection from boundaries or discontinuities within the tissues of the animal. Variable gain amplifier amplifies the echo signals and produces detector signals. Gain control means varies the gain of the amplifier to increase the probability of having exactly two detector signals identifiable as arising from echoes from a hide/fat boundary and a fat/muscle boundary. A fat depth determining means receives the detector signals and if they exceed primary threshold levels identifies the two required detector signals so as to thereby enable determination of the depth of the fat layer. If more than three detector signals have levels exceeding 60% of the threshold level, the depth determination is considered invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignees: Meat Research Corporation, University of New England
    Inventors: Royden J. W. Lake, Ronald C. Bradbury, Rainer Kunnemeyer