A23N 15/00
Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human
Official title: Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human purposes; Machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs {(treatment of coffee, other than drying or roasting A23F; treatment of cocoa A23G1/02)}
A23N15/00 (Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human) appears on 463 US grants and 419 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A23N- Granted patents
- 463
- Published applications
- 419
- Assignees
- 277
- Inventors
- 915
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 11 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 9 | 0 |
| 1979 | 11 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 15 | 0 |
| 1985 | 8 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 5 | 0 |
| 1988 | 6 | 0 |
| 1989 | 8 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 13 | 0 |
| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
| 1993 | 8 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 12 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 5 |
| 2002 | 9 | 6 |
| 2003 | 10 | 12 |
| 2004 | 5 | 6 |
| 2005 | 5 | 16 |
| 2006 | 10 | 5 |
| 2007 | 3 | 17 |
| 2008 | 4 | 15 |
| 2009 | 7 | 18 |
| 2010 | 6 | 13 |
| 2011 | 2 | 14 |
| 2012 | 7 | 8 |
| 2013 | 10 | 9 |
| 2014 | 11 | 24 |
| 2015 | 16 | 27 |
| 2016 | 20 | 19 |
| 2017 | 18 | 20 |
| 2018 | 5 | 23 |
| 2019 | 18 | 26 |
| 2020 | 19 | 30 |
| 2021 | 16 | 29 |
| 2022 | 16 | 23 |
| 2023 | 20 | 18 |
| 2024 | 20 | 21 |
| 2025 | 12 | 9 |
| 2026 | 5 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A23N 15/02Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human107
- A23N 15/04Devices for topping fruit or vegetables66
- A23N 15/08Devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs64
- A23N 15/06Devices for other treatment of fruit63
- A23N 15/003Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human37
- A23N 15/12Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human21
- A23N 2015/008Sorting of fruit and vegetablesIndexing code21
- A23N 15/10Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human15
All 12 subgroupsShow fewer
- A23N 2015/006Singularising cherries or other clustered fruit and vegetablesIndexing code8
- A23N 15/01Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human6
- A23N 15/001Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human1
- A23N 15/005Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human1
Recent patents
- Destemming devices6 Oct 2026US 12,751,479 B2Trick Concepts
- Apparatus for quality grading, sorting and conveying cucumbers, and dynamic separation implementation method9 Jun 2026US 12,649,630 B2Agricultural Information Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultral Science
- Method for removing outer skin of onion and device for removing outer skin of onion28 Apr 2026US 12,610,977 B2Taisei Denki Co., Ltd.
- Centrifugal orbital flower cutter with an iris blade follower24 Mar 2026US 12,582,043 B2Marjo Engineering, LLC
- Destemmer for a fruit harvester24 Feb 2026US 12,557,832 B2CNH Industrial America LLC
- Food processing systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307288 A1Proex Food, LLC
- Harvester20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240219 A1Marjo Engineering, LLC
- Food Cutting Device13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232001 A1Lyco Manufacturing, Inc.
- Destemmer arrangement16 Apr 2026US 2026/0101919 A1CNH Industrial France SAS
- Destemmer arrangement16 Apr 2026US 2026/0101920 A1CNH Industrial France SAS
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of laser marking of produce47US 5,660,747 AAtrion Medical Products, Inc. · 1997
- Seed coring system and method for arranging seed cores for analysis47US 6,959,617 B2Monsanto Technology LLC · 2005
- Produce marking system44US 5,897,797 AAtrion Medical Product. Inc. · 1999
- Method for processing leafy vegetables for extended storage41US 5,316,778 AGlobal Prepcorp · 1994
- Food processing apparatus40US 4,453,458 A1984