Patents by Inventor Geoffrey James BATES

Geoffrey James BATES 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).

  • APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EXCRETA DETECTION AND TREATMENT
    Publication number: 20160286713
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for travelling over a ground surface, the apparatus including detection means for detecting an area of the ground surface (or sub-ground surface) which has had a deposition of excreta, and treatment means for treating the area with at least one substance. The apparatus may preferably be automated. In a preferred embodiment, the excreta being detected may be cattle urine and the substance(s) used to treat the area of deposition of urine may be a nitrate inhibitor and/or a urease inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: PASTORAL ROBOTICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Geoffrey James BATES, Bertram Francis Charles QUIN, George Terry PALMER, Raymond Andrew SIMPKIN