Patents Examined by Aaron M Rodziwicz
  • Animal weighing scale
    Patent number: 10765090
    Abstract: Provided is an animal weighing scale that automatically measures a weight of an animal by a simple configuration. The animal weighing scale includes a breeding container for laboratory animals and a scale including a weighing pan supported by a weight sensor, the weighing pan is disposed inside a breeding space of the breeding container, and the weight sensor is disposed inside or outside the breeding space, and accordingly, based on a measurement value change when an animal inside the container is placed onto the pan, a weight change of the animal can be continuously recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: A&D COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoto Izumo, Ken Ihara, Shunsuke Kasamatsu
  • Tungsten fishing sinker and method thereof
    Patent number: 10765098
    Abstract: A tungsten sinker formed of a flat unpainted outer body surface with an inner channel running from a first end to a second end, the tungsten sinker is unpainted, has a flat dark neural color, and includes a base stock of 97% pure tungsten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Ray Steven Dial
  • Enclosing vegetative sheath
    Patent number: 10765071
    Abstract: An enclosing plant sheath for encircling and protecting a plant stem or vine, which may be joined with other similar sheaths, to create a beneficial microenvironment for developing plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Mariplast North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Francesco Bottari
  • Vertical growing system
    Patent number: 10757877
    Abstract: Disclosed is a growing system that includes a hollow grow tower with planting units configured to hold plants disposed on the tower exterior where the planting units have a passage that extends into the tower interior. The tower also includes a drain port at one end and a water-dispensing nozzle at the other end. The nozzle includes outlet apertures in fluid communication with the interior of the tower where one or more of the nozzle outlet apertures may be square. An enclosure surrounds the tower, and one or more light sources are mounted on the enclosure to direct light towards the tower. The tower and enclosure can be connected to a suspension frame that suspends the entire system off the ground. The system may include a closed-loop irrigation system and a multi-tank cleaning system. System variables, such as water flow, temperature, lighting, and water nutrient level can be computer controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HYPERPONIC, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Fyvolent, Christopher Walton
  • System for protecting plant seedlings
    Patent number: 10750678
    Abstract: A system for protecting from bad weather plants seedlings arranged in rows, wherein the system includes: at least one body configured to be positioned nearby at least one row of plants seedlings; at least one first protection member configured to be deployed above the plants seedlings in at least one first position so as to cover at least partially the plants seedlings of the row and to be retracted in at least one second position so as to uncover the plants seedlings of the row, the first protection member being fastened to said body; and at least one control device configured to enable the deployment and retraction of the first protection member, the body including at least one first receiving chamber extending at least partially at a first longitudinal side of said body, the first receiving chamber configured to receive the at least one protection member in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: OENOPROTECH
    Inventor: Antonio Marques
  • Livestock structures and related methods
    Patent number: 10743516
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present livestock structures comprise a floor, wherein the floor is configured to support livestock housing; a roof, wherein a majority of the roof is substantially parallel to the floor; and one or more supporting structures configured to support the roof; in some embodiments, the floor comprises a non-zero slope. Some embodiments of the present livestock structures comprise a passageway extending a majority of a distance between a first side and an opposing second side of the structure, wherein the passageway is positioned at an elevation that is below an elevation of the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Big Box Dairy LLC
    Inventor: Dean Mason
  • Method for recording and predicting position data for a self-propelled wheeled vehicle
    Patent number: 10729100
    Abstract: A method for recording and predicting position data for a self-propelled wheeled vehicle (1) carrying a load (14) is provided whereby the vehicle (1) is caused to move along a ground surface (5) along a predominantly straight line trajectory (17) by rotating at least one load carrying wheel (3) in frictional engagement with the surface (5), angular rotation data of at least one wheel (3) is obtained, absolute position data are obtained at different predetermined fixed positions Pn of the vehicle (1) with respect to the surface (5) along the straight line trajectory (17), whereby the distance travels is measured independently and used to calibrate motion sensors on board the vehicle. The invention also comprises a delivery or pick up system, a program for an on-board computing device and an on-board computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: MINKPAPIR A/S
    Inventors: Martin Peter Christiansen, Rasmus Nyholm Jorgensen
  • Methods and apparatus to point a payload at a target
    Patent number: 10735088
    Abstract: An example machine accessible medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, causes a machine to at least command a first actuator to move to a first corrected stroke position and a second actuator to move to a second corrected stroke position to point a payload at a target along a line of sight vector without verifying a target pointing direction of a base when the first and second actuators are positioned to the respective first and second corrected stroke positions and without using a feedback to verify the base being at the target pointing direction when the first and second actuators are positioned to the respective first and second corrected stroke positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Yong Liu
  • Pet waste disposal apparatus
    Patent number: 10721917
    Abstract: A pet waste disposal apparatus comprising a funnel shaped receptacle with a top open end for receiving pet waste and a bottom open end connectable to a sewage line via one or more plumbing adapters for discharging the pet waste. The apparatus further comprises a lid closure removably attached to the top open end of the receptacle and a water inlet on the exterior receptacle to receive from a hose supplying water from a water source and discharge pressurized water into the receptacle for flushing the pet waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventor: Lawrence Fernandez
  • Method for sampling of milk in a milking machine and a milking machine
    Patent number: 10721904
    Abstract: A method for sampling milk in a milking machine includes the steps of attaching teat cups to teats of an animal and starting to milk said teats; receiving a first amount of milk in a milk receiver while keeping an outlet valve device open; closing the outlet valve device; continuing the receiving of milk in the milk receiver; agitating the milk in the milk receiver using an agitation device of a milk sampling arrangement; taking a regular milk sample from the milk in an outlet portion of the milk receiver using a milk sample device of the milk sampling arrangement; and opening the outlet valve device so that the milk can be transferred to a milk tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: DeLaval Holding AB
    Inventors: Mats Gudmundsson, Thomas Johansson, Fernando Mazeris
  • Inhalation toxicity testing chamber device for nanoparticles having multiple concentrations
    Patent number: 10716653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhalation toxicity testing chamber device for nanoparticles having a plurality of concentrations. The present invention provides an inhalation toxicity testing chamber device for nanoparticles having a plurality of concentrations, which: can supply nanoparticles having different concentrations to particle exposure modules by stacking a plurality of particle exposure modules inside a single chamber housing and by allowing each particle exposure module so as to form an independent space from each other; can perform inhalation toxicity testing of nanoparticles having a plurality of concentrations through a single chamber housing by being capable of exposing the test animals put into each particle exposure module to nanoparticles having different concentrations; can easily perform inhalation toxicity tests of nanoparticles in a small scale laboratory etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI CALIBRATION & CERTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kyu Hong Lee, Yong Taek Kwon, Ki Soo Jeon, Jae Seong Lee, Ki Won Seo, Ji Hyun Han
  • Seaweed farming system
    Patent number: 10709078
    Abstract: A seaweed farming system may include a harvesting unit. The harvesting unit may include a harvest disintegrator. The harvest disintegrator may be configured to receive a plantation substrate having mature seaweed thereon after severing a vegetative portion of seaweed. The harvesting unit may further be configured to disintegrate the mature seaweed to separate the mature seaweed from the plantation substrate, the plantation substrate remaining intact during separation of the mature seaweed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sea6 Energy Private Ltd.
    Inventors: Nitish Kati, Nelson Vadassery, Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Hrishikesh Ranjalkar, Chaitanya Praveen Nandigama, Sowmya Lakshmi Balendiran, Sri Sailaja Nori
  • Plant collars
    Patent number: 10709075
    Abstract: Hydroponics plant collars including a body defining a thickness, a center, and a periphery, a slot extending from the periphery and generally toward the center, a terminus of the slot and a surface thereof, and two opposing slot surfaces which define smooth plant contact portions thereof and which are spaced apart from one another whereby the body distributes forces acting on the hydroponics plant collar and on a plant to be in the slot, and metallic nanospheres dispersed throughout the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventor: Michael W. Goldsmith
  • Pot flower
    Patent number: 10701874
    Abstract: A pot flower which features a unique, internal catch-basin or reservoir designed to collect, store, and dispense upon demand water, minerals, and fertilizer which have been applied and have run through the potting soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Inventors: Roosevelt Thomas, Judy Robinson
  • Seaweed farming system
    Patent number: 10694690
    Abstract: A seaweed farming system (100) for farming of seaweed in a water body is described herein. In an embodiment, the seaweed farming system (100) includes a seaweed farm operating assembly (102) which further includes a harvesting unit (106) to separate vegetative portion of seaweed from mature seaweed. The mature seaweed can grow on a plantation substrate (110). The seaweed farm operating assembly (102) also includes a seeding unit (108) to receive the vegetative portion of the seaweed from the harvesting unit (106) and to sow the vegetative portion of the seaweed in a fresh plantation substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Sea6 Energy Private Ltd.
    Inventors: Nitish Kati, Nelson Vadassery, Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Hrishikesh Ranjalkar, Chaitanya Praveen Nandigama, Sowmya Lakshmi Balendiran, Sri Sailaja Nori
  • System and method for solar greenhouse aquaponics and black soldier fly composter and auto fish feeder
    Patent number: 10687485
    Abstract: An aquaponics and greenhouse system, includes an insulated solar greenhouse with a glazing on a sun facing side at an angle to maximize winter sunlight, and housing a fish tank housed within the solar greenhouse; a plant growing area housed within the solar greenhouse; a mushroom growing area housed within the solar greenhouse; a water wall thermal mass housed within the solar greenhouse and disposed between the plant growing area and mushroom growing area; and a natural air ventilation system housed within the solar greenhouse and configured to provide misted air into the mushroom growing area. O2 generated by the plant growing area is received by the natural air ventilation system and provided to the mushroom growing area, and CO2 generated by the mushroom growing area is provided to the plant growing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventor: Carlos R. Villamar
  • Eco-friendly netting and methods of growing and harvesting sod using the same
    Patent number: 10687483
    Abstract: An eco-friendly netting for growing and/or harvesting sod and/or plants is disclosed herein. The eco-friendly netting includes a plurality of fibers arranged in a woven configuration or a substantially non-woven configuration. Each of the plurality of fibers is formed from a substantially natural material, which may also be biodegradable. The eco-friendly netting may be preseeded. The eco-friendly netting may be treated or processed with anti-rot agents, degrading accelerators, nutrients, fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, algaecides, herbicides, water absorption/retention enhancers or any combination thereof. Methods of growing sod and harvesting sod, which utilize the eco-friendly netting, are also disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, the eco-friendly netting may be treated or processed to increase or decrease its functional longevity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventors: Siby Pothen, Melissa Pothen
  • System, apparatus and method for growing marijuana
    Patent number: 10681879
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for growing marijuana plants, particularly for regulated purposes, for example medical purposes or in some jurisdictions recreational purposes, have automated subsystems with sensors to provide feedback information about system, apparatus and plant growth parameters to one or more controllers so that the one or more controllers can alter one or more parameters to provide optimal conditions for the growing and harvesting of the marijuana plants. In particular aspects, the systems, apparatuses and methods provide for control of odors produced during the growing of marijuana, root management of the marijuana plants and control over important levels of chemicals provided to the plants, for example enzymes and flavor additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Avid Growing Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Gagne, Jody Clugston, Jonathon Pounder
  • Systems and methods for selective pollination
    Patent number: 10674685
    Abstract: A method of pollinating a plant includes receiving, with a processing circuit, plant data regarding a plant having flowers, and controlling, by the processing circuit, operation of an robotic device to selectively pollinate a portion of the plurality of flowers based on the plant data. The robotic device includes sensors configured to acquire plant data, a pollination device configured to pollinate flowers of a plant, a collection device configured to collect pollen, and a pollination prevention device configured prevent a flower from being pollinated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth G. Caldeira, Alistair K. Chan, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Max N. Mankin, Tony S. Pan, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Fan coil for greenhouse
    Patent number: 10674680
    Abstract: A fan coil apparatus for a closed greenhouse that recirculates are within the greenhouse includes a housing with an intake and an outtake further including a filter that filters recirculating air that enters the intake, cooling coils that cool the recirculating air and condense water therefrom, heating coils that heat the recirculating air, a sterilization system that kills and prevents the spread of airborne pathogens, and a fan that directs the recirculating air through the outtake outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Horticultural Solutions Ltd.
    Inventor: Shane Hutto