MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411023166 A) filed by Chandigarh University; and Chandigarh University Technology Business Incubator, Mohali, Punjab, on March 24, 2024, for 'onion harvesting assistive device.'
Inventor(s) include Himadri Shekhar.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An onion harvesting assistive device, comprising an elongated body 1 having distal and proximal end, a handle 2 attached with the body 1 that is accessed by a user to position the distal end through, an onion to be harvested, an artificial intelligence based imaging unit 3 installed on body 1 to determine presence of onion, a laser projector 4 installed on the body 1 to project laser light over detected onion for informing the user to position the distal end over the onion, a plate 5 configured with the body 1 integrated with, a motorized drawer arrangement to provide extension to plate 5, a flap 5 configured with each of the plate 5 for gripping onion in between the flaps and plate 5, plurality of telescopic curved links 6 configured the flaps for digging soil, a pair of blades 7 installed on body 1 for cutting leaves of onions."
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