Patents Issued in July 4, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240215471
    Abstract: A handheld turf care device for caring for care a turf on a golf course. The handheld turf care device includes a cylindrical roller portion having a lateral surface for smoothing a section of the turf, a piercing tool which is arranged at a first end of the cylindrical roller portion, and a punching tool which is arranged at a second end of the cylindrical roller portion. The cylindrical roller portion is provided as a handrest. The first end of the cylindrical roller portion is oriented opposite to the second end of the cylindrical roller portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: GHG GOLFKONTOR HANDELS GMBH
    Inventor: Tim Peter GAGELMANN
  • Publication number: 20240215472
    Abstract: An agricultural planter is configured to be moved over a supporting surface by a vehicle. The agricultural planter includes a frame and a planter assembly coupled to the frame. A first propulsion assembly is coupled to the frame at a first position with the first propulsion assembly having a first traction member configured to engage the supporting surface. A second propulsion assembly is coupled to the frame at a second position with the second propulsion assembly having a second traction member configured to engage the supporting surface. A drive assembly is operably coupled to at least one of the first or second propulsion assemblies and configured to drive at least one of the first or second traction members during operation of the planter assembly. The first traction member is configured to be driven independently of the second traction member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Gerald E. Rains, James R. Peterson, Nathan A. Mariman
  • Publication number: 20240215473
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a positioning system to output first chronological data, an inertial measurement system to output second chronological data based on measurement values from an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor, and a controller to, in a first state when positioning by the positioning system is possible, consecutively estimate a first azimuth angle based on the first and second chronological data, consecutively estimate a second azimuth angle based on the second chronological data, calculate a rate of change in azimuth error of the second azimuth angle based on a difference between the consecutively-estimated first and second azimuth angles in the first state, and, in a second state associated with a decreased reliability of positioning, perform steering control based on an azimuth angle resulting from causing the second azimuth angle estimated based on the second chronological data to be corrected based on the rate of change in azimuth error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kohei OKURA, Junichi YUASA
  • Publication number: 20240215474
    Abstract: To provide a seedsheet manufacturing apparatus that can increase a manufacturing speed and a seedsheet. A seedsheet manufacturing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a paste reservoir configured to store a paste in which a seed and a fluid are mixed; a plate cylinder disposed above the paste reservoir; a doctor blade configured to scrape a portion of the paste adhering to a surface of the plate cylinder; a pressing roller disposed such that the pressing roller faces the plate cylinder and a mounting paper is allowed to pass through a gap formed between the pressing roller and the surface of the plate cylinder; a supply unit configured to feed the mounting paper to the gap; and a recovery unit configured to recover the mounting paper that passes through the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Shuhou Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouji MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240215475
    Abstract: Row unit coupling devices for securing a pair of row units to an agricultural implement. The row unit coupling devices can be pivotally coupled to the tool bar, and/or utilize a biasing element. Further, the row unit coupling devices can arrange the pair of row units in a partial overlapping side-by-side arrangement where one row unit extends further upstream than the other row unit. Such an arrangement allows wider regions of at least neighboring pairs of row units to be offset from each other, thereby accommodating closer placement of the row units, which can facilitate narrower crop row spacing. The row unit coupling devices also accommodate differences in the vertical position and/or angular orientations at least between the pair of row units, which can facilitate the row units being maintained in an orientation at which seeds are planted in a direction that is generally perpendicular to the ground surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Elijah B. Garner, Dnyanesh K. Dhobale
  • Publication number: 20240215476
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-efficiency and low-damage potato combine harvester, including a digging device, a conveyance and separation device, a separation and elevation reversing device, a potato collection box, and a control unit. The present disclosure can realize low-damage digging, high-efficiency conveyance, and high-performance potato-soil and potato-stem separation at a time, can effectively reduce a digging resistance in potato harvesting and prevent soil hilling and potato damaging phenomena, and improves conveyance and separation efficiencies for a potato-soil-stem mixture. The present disclosure makes the harvester more adaptable to different soil properties and potato varieties, allows an operator to better adjust working performance of the harvester, reduces a falling damage of potatoes due to a large falling height in box packaging, and meets requirements of high-efficiency combine harvesting of the potatoes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Yaoming LI, Hanhao WANG, Kuizhou JI, Ying WU, Xiangyang WU, Guoliang YOU
  • Publication number: 20240215477
    Abstract: Provided is an instruction device capable of generating a driving route suitable for characteristics of a driving region while reducing the number of steps required to generate a route. The instruction device is configured to instruct an autonomous driving vehicle of a behavior plan including at least a driving route, the driving route includes an actual driving route created based on actual driving data obtained at the time of actual driving, and the actual driving route is set at a predetermined position on the driving route, based on the actual driving data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Andrii PYDIN, Koichi TSUNO
  • Publication number: 20240215478
    Abstract: A method of collecting nutrient information of plant material as a mower moves over a field. The mower has a swathboard positionable to shape a rearwardly-directed stream of cut plant material into windrows. A sensor is mounted on the swathboard to coincide with the location where the stream of cut plant material interacts with the swathboard. The sensor moves to a base position when the swathboard moves to a full down position such that the swathboard is maximizing contact of the swathboard with the crop material, where in the base position, a shoe plate on which the sensor is co-planer with the swathboard. The sensor moves to an extended position such that the shoe plate is pivoted relative the swathboard when the swathboard is positioned toward a full up position such that some of the crop stream is directed back to forming shields of the header assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: James Kraus, Kevin J. Hamilton, Patrick Kendrick
  • Publication number: 20240215479
    Abstract: In one aspect the invention is directed to a mower configured to cut plant material as it moves over a field and deposit the cut plant material onto the field, the mower having a header assembly having a cutter bed, conditioning rollers, and a swathboard, the swathboard being positionable to shape the cut plant material into windrows. The cutter bed has a plurality of rotating rotary cutters that includes at least one pair of oppositely rotating cutters that sends a rearwardly-directed stream of cut plant material between the oppositely rotating pair of rotary cutters. The header assembly includes a sensor system mounted on the swathboard. The sensor system has a sensor configured to collect nutrient information of the plant material being cut by the mower. The sensor is positioned on the swathboard to coincide with the location where the stream of cut plant material interacts with the swathboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin J. Hamilton, James Kraus, Patrick Kendrick
  • Publication number: 20240215480
    Abstract: A rotatable ring control mechanism is mounted on a control arm of a riding mower and allows a user to control a function of the riding mower. The mechanism includes an inner support component and an outer interface ring. The inner component secures the mechanism to the control arm and includes a signal generating technology receiving a control input and generating a corresponding control signal. The outer ring rotates around the inner component and around a longitudinal axis of the control arm to provide the control input to the signal generating technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Douglas Swartz, Min Sung Kim, Michael Phan
  • Publication number: 20240215481
    Abstract: An anti-scalp system is mounted to a lower deck of a riding mower and prevents the deck from contacting the ground. The system includes a first shaft, a second shaft, a resistance element, and a wheel. The first shaft is attached to the deck, and the second shaft slides within the first shaft between an extended position and a retracted position. The resistance element biases the second shaft toward the extended position. The wheel is rotatably coupled to a lower end of the second shaft. When the deck reaches a minimum height above the ground, the wheel contacts the ground, the second shaft slides upwardly within the first shaft to compress resistance element, and the compressed resistance element resists further upward movement of the second shaft to prevent the deck from contacting the ground. There may be a plurality of the anti-scalp systems mounted around the deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kirk Payne, Bary Jordan, Shoichiro Nagaishi
  • Publication number: 20240215482
    Abstract: A crop residue spreader arrangement, and an agricultural vehicle fitted with such a crop residue spreader arrangement, are disclosed. The crop residue spreader arrangement comprises a frame, a pair of counter rotating residue spreader wheels carried from the frame, first and second shaped residue deflectors, each residue deflector being associated with an adjacent residue spreader wheel and comprising an arm pivotable about a pivot point and a material deflector at an end of the arm remote from the pivot wherein the material deflector of each of the first and second shaped residue deflectors is provided with a curvature extending around an axis of the pivot point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Smed Bojsen
  • Publication number: 20240215483
    Abstract: Stabilizers of an agricultural header can be either, or both, displaceable and deformable in response to engagement with a portion of a crop, such as, for example, a stalk, in a manner that can assist in stabilizing the crop for at least purposes of determining a corresponding cross-sectional size of the crop. Characteristics relating to the displacement or the deformation of the stabilizers can be detected by one or more sensors and communicated to a controller to determine a measured size of the crop. Using the measured size, the controller can determine if the size of the crop corresponds to a current size of a width between deck plates of the header. If the measured size indicates the width is to be adjusted, the controller can selectively operate an actuator that is coupled to at least one of the deck plates to displace at least one deck plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Gurmukh H. Advani, Michael L. Rhodes, Kevin P. Cowles, Noel W. Anderson, Ali Haidous, Andrew M. Schefter, Eric M. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240215484
    Abstract: A control system for controlling operation of one or more operational components of a crop residue spreader arrangement of an agricultural harvester is disclosed. The control system comprises one or more controllers, and is configured to: receive data indicative of a detected distribution of crop residue located on the ground behind the crop residue spreader arrangement; determine, in dependence on the detected distribution, a spreading strategy for operation of one or more operational components of the crop residue spreader arrangement, and generate and output one or more control signals for controlling the one or more operational components of the crop residue spreader arrangement in dependence on the determined spreading strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Marcelo Carpenedo
  • Publication number: 20240215485
    Abstract: A header assembly for an agricultural vehicle includes a header having a lower surface and at least one gauge wheel assembly. The gauge wheel assembly includes a gauge wheel and a coupling mechanism coupling the gauge wheel to the header. The coupling mechanism includes a hydraulic cylinder configured to selectively extend from a retracted configuration towards an extended configuration to urge a lower edge of the gauge wheel below and away from the lower surface of the header, and a biasing element arranged to bias the hydraulic cylinder to the retracted configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: CNH Industrial Belgium N.V.
    Inventors: Wim Syryn, Glennys Verfaillie
  • Publication number: 20240215486
    Abstract: A multi-segment header (102) for an agricultural harvester. The multi¬segment header (102) includes a chassis (104), a multi-segment auger (110) supported by the chassis, and a drive assembly (120) centrally located with respect to the chassis for rotatably driving the multi-segment auger. The multi-segment auger includes a first auger segment (112) and a second auger segment (114). The drive assembly (120) includes a motor (130) spaced from the multi¬segment auger (110) and a driven shaft (138) operatively engaged with the motor, and the first and second auger segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Eric Fredricks, II, Thamilselvan Karuppannan, Cory M. Conway, Brian P. Crow
  • Publication number: 20240215487
    Abstract: A discharge control system is secured to a discharge cover over a discharge opening in a lower deck of a riding lawn mower to focus and direct an airflow exiting the discharge opening to do useful work. The system includes a discharge cover attachment and an attachment mechanism. The discharge cover attachment defines a volume and includes an exit opening which is smaller than the discharge opening. The attachment mechanism secures the discharge cover attachment to the discharge cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kirk Payne, Shoichiro Nagaishi
  • Publication number: 20240215488
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for on-site identification of damaged fruits and ripeness assessment, immediately after picking/harvesting, thereby enabling discarding damaged fruits on-site without delivering such damaged fruits to a warehouse, which also reduces harvesting time and improves harvesting efficiency. The method of the invention enables improved sorting compared to known robotic harvesters as it is based on a 360° inspection of the fruit and without having the leaves and branches interfere. The method of the invention further enables a preliminary sorting of the fruits according to determined fruits' grade based on identified blemishes in each fruit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adi TAFLIA, Yaniv MAOR, Nadav DAN-GUR
  • Publication number: 20240215489
    Abstract: The feeder device located at the centre section of a front of a harvester. The feeder device comprises one or more flights configured for improving operation of the feeder device. The feeder device comprises a shaft including a plurality of flights. They extend substantially along the entire length of the shaft and are arranged in a spaced apart relationship with respect to each other. In this manner, a threaded-like formation defined by the spaced apart arrangement of flights extends substantially along the entire length of the shaft of the feeder device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Fels
  • Publication number: 20240215490
    Abstract: A riding mower includes a mowing assembly including a mowing element and a deck accommodating at least part of the mowing element; a traveling assembly including at least left traveling wheels and right traveling wheels; a traveling electric motor for driving the traveling assembly; a grass collecting pipe connected to the deck to guide grass clippings; and a power supply device configured to supply power to the traveling electric motor. The projection of the grass collecting pipe on a first plane supporting the traveling assembly is at least partially located between the left traveling wheels and the right traveling wheels. The maximum total energy of the power supply device is greater than or equal to 0.5 kW·h and less than or equal to 6 kW·h.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Lijin Zhang, Jie Chen, Li Li, Runze Liu
  • Publication number: 20240215491
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of garden tools, and particularly relates to a garden tools travel driving mechanism and garden tools, the garden tools travel driving mechanism comprises: traveling wheels; a driving motor; and a speed reducer, the power input end of the speed reducer is connected with the driving motor, the power output end of the speed reducer is connected with the traveling wheels, and the speed reducer is arranged in an axial space at the center of the traveling wheels. The speed reducer can increase the output torque of the driving motor, so that the power and the size of the driving motor can be reduced on the premise of ensuring sufficient power. Meanwhile, the speed reducer is arranged in the central axial space of the traveling wheels and is used as a supporting shaft of the traveling wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Qunli Wei, Dongdong Shi
  • Publication number: 20240215492
    Abstract: A water-retention and dust-suppression crop straw mulching method includes crushing a whole harvested crop straw to be 1-4 cm in length first, mixing the crushed crop straw with an adhesive well, and uniformly paving the mixed crop straw into a forming die for extrusion forming to form crop straw modules. A plurality of drain holes is on the crop straw modules. The method includes stubble cleaning and subsoiling treatment on the harvested farmland, and then performing rotary cultivation on the farmland to loosen soil, and performing rolling treatment on the rotary-cultivated soil by a land roller; paving the crop straw modules on the farmland uniformly in a densely covered way, meanwhile, connecting and fixing the crop straw modules by ribbons and connecting rods. The method helps to block the upward evaporation channel of soil moisture, reduce the evaporation of soil moisture, prevent the crushed crop straw from polluting the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaojuan WANG, Juanling WANG
  • Publication number: 20240215493
    Abstract: A crop harvesting system for reducing compaction includes a dump mule and a trailer. The dump mule is an autonomous vehicle configured to automatically hook and drop the trailer. The mule includes one or more wheels and a conveyor system configured to transport crops from the trailer into an auger for loading. The trailer includes a set of automatic landing gear, one or more hoppers, an automatic tarp system, and two or more retractable wheels. In an example use case, the mule commands the trailer to raise the landing gear as the mule positions underneath the trailer. In one embodiment, once the trailer is properly positioned on the mule, the mule commands the trailer to raise the wheels. At this stage, the mule bears the full weight of the trailer. From here, the mule transports the trailer to a crop storage system to empty the trailer via the auger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Silonz LLC
    Inventor: Kyler Laird
  • Publication number: 20240215494
    Abstract: A crop residue spreader arrangement comprises a frame, a pair of counter rotating residue spreader wheels carried from the frame, the frame element supporting first and second shaped residue deflectors wherein each of the first and second shaped residue deflectors comprises a plurality of vertically displaceable elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Marcelo Carpenedo
  • Publication number: 20240215495
    Abstract: A light source module for plant cultivation and a plant cultivation method. The light source module for plant cultivation includes: a substrate; a main light source; and a supplemental light source. The main light source is electrically connected to the substrate and supplies background light to a plant. The supplemental light source is electrically connected to the substrate and supplies supplemental light to the plant. Here, the background light and the supplemental light have different peak wavelengths. In addition, the supplemental light includes blue light to enhance growth of the plant and the content of a specific phytochemical in the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicants: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF CHUNGBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Myung Min OH, Song Yi PARK, Ji Won LEE
  • Publication number: 20240215496
    Abstract: A light module includes a substrate, at least one first light source, at least one second light source, and at least one third light source. The first light source is disposed on the substrate and emits a first type of light towards a plant. The second light source is disposed on the substrate and emits a second type of light towards the plant. The third light source is disposed on the substrate and emits a third type of light towards the plant. The first to third types of light have peak wavelengths in different wavelength bands. The first type of light is UV light or blue light in a short wavelength band, the second type of light is UV light, and the third type of light is visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Se Ryung KIM
  • Publication number: 20240215497
    Abstract: A modular piping-type plant cultivation apparatus includes: a body unit configured such that a hexahedral frame is erected on the ground in a vertical direction; plant units vertically spaced apart from each other in the inside of the body unit, and each configured to provide at least one plant box that is configured such that a soil is contained therein and an air circulation space is formed in the lower end thereof; nutrient solution modules installed in the respective plant boxes, each provided such that external irrigation pipes and underground irrigation pipes are connected to each other, and configured to supply a nutrient solution; oxygen modules installed in the respective plant boxes, disposed inside the soil, and connected and disposed in a plurality of columns under the underground irrigation pipes; and drainage modules disposed in the respective air circulation spaces, and configured to collect and discharge a nutrient solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: AG-UNI CO., LTD
    Inventor: Mi Jin GWON
  • Publication number: 20240215498
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for controlling temperature of root zone of plants, by providing gas at controlled temperature to root zone region of plants, wherein the root zone is at least partially isolated from above ground plant parts, and wherein the temperature controlled gas is provided above ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Gadi PELEG
  • Publication number: 20240215499
    Abstract: The present disclosure is a plant growing apparatus that has an enclosure having an interior to maintain an interior environment and containing at least one light source, a planting column formed of a plurality of sections removably coupled to one another to define a cavity, and a conduit having a dispensing apparatus at least partially positioned within the cavity and positioned to distribute aqueous solution throughout the cavity. The planting column is rotatably movable about the dispensing apparatus and the at least one light source, planting column, and conduit are self-contained with the enclosure as part of the plant growing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Scott Massey
  • Publication number: 20240215500
    Abstract: The invention provides an extendable arm (10) which is removably insertable into an irrigation pipeline (12) of a centre pivot irrigation system which includes a central tower and at least one movable tower for carrying the pipeline (12). The arm (10) comprises a first arm segment (14) which is connectable at one end thereof to the irrigation pipeline (12): a second arm segment (16) which is connectable at one thereof to the irrigation pipeline (12): and a connecting pipe (24) extending between the first and second arm segments (14, 16) to enable uninterrupted fluid flow in the irrigation pipeline (12). The first and second arm segments (14, 16) are displaceable relative to each other between a retracted and extended position to alternate radial distance between the movable tower and the central tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Barend Christoffel BRITS
  • Publication number: 20240215501
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide an interface unit interfacing with an irrigation controller, comprising: a housing; a controller configured to instruct an interruption of a watering schedule executed by the irrigation controller, the interruption based on one or both of sensed temperature and sensed rainfall amount, and based on one or both of user entered temperature and rainfall threshold parameters; a switching device coupled with the controller, and configured to cause the interruption in response to signaling from the controller; and a user interface comprising: a plurality of user input devices configured to provide signaling to the controller based upon user's engagement, and configured to allow the user to define the temperature and rainfall threshold parameters; and a user display comprising a display screen; wherein the controller is configured to cause the display screen to display a plurality of pictorial representations that in combination convey whether irrigation is being interrupted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: David M. Redmond, Michael J. Tennyson, Randall A. Hern, Gerald E. Peterson, David G. Fern
  • Publication number: 20240215502
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system and method for interfacing with an irrigation controller based on rainfall, the system comprising: an interface unit including a housing and a control unit within the housing and configured to: cause an interruption of one or more watering schedules executed by the irrigation controller, which is separate from the interface unit, based on signaling received from a rain sensor including hygroscopic material, when a sensed expansion of the hygroscopic material is above a set rainfall accumulation threshold parameter, the rain sensor being separate from the interface unit and the hygroscopic material being configured to expand in response to being contacted by the rainfall and to contract in response to an absence of the rainfall; and remove the interruption after a completion of a predetermined interval of time after a sensed contraction of the hygroscopic material indicative of a rainfall stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Steven W. Weiler, Harvey J. Nickerson
  • POT
    Publication number: 20240215503
    Abstract: A pot (1) for use in growing plants comprises a base (2), an annular wall (3) extending from the base (2) to a rim (4), a drain (5) being defined substantially in the centre of the base (2), an injector (6) in the wall (3) for injecting fluid into the pot (1), wherein the injector (6) is located in the wall (3) proximate to the base (2) and distant to the rim (4) and aligned with a plane tangential to the wall (3), the injector (6) comprising a venturi and an air inlet. The pot (1) forms part of a recirculating deep water culture (RDWC) hydroponic system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Ryan Chappell
  • Publication number: 20240215504
    Abstract: A hyperponic growing apparatus includes a growing chamber for supporting the growth of a plant positioned within the growing chamber. A cooling duct is attached to the growing chamber and the cooling duct is comprised of a translucent material to pass light through the cooling duct. The cooling duct is fluidly coupled to an air conditioning unit to facilitate moisture within the growing chamber to condense on the cooling duct. A growing light is suspended from the growing chamber to emit light through the cooling duct to facilitate the plant to be exposed to the light emitted by the growing light. An irrigation unit is in fluid communication with the cooling duct to collect the condensed moisture from the cooling duct. Furthermore, the irrigation unit has an outlet integrated into a pot in which the plant is growing to direct the condensed moisture into the pot for irrigating the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Jared Deane
  • Publication number: 20240215505
    Abstract: A gutter system for growing one or more plants may be provided. The gutter system may include a gutter and one or more inserts. The gutter may have a trough, a first side wall extending upward from the trough, and a second side wall opposite the first side wall and extending upward from the trough. The gutter inserts may each have an outer wall, a clip connected to the outer wall, such that the clip secures the gutter insert to the gutter, and an inner wall which slopes away from the outer wall. The gutter insert may be hollow and the first gutter insert may be connected to the first side wall and the second gutter insert may be connected to the second side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Local Bounti Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan SWEENEY, Ari HOROWITZ, Jessica STAHA, Seth SWANSON
  • Publication number: 20240215506
    Abstract: A linked-chain system and custom gutter within an agricultural environment may be shown and described. In an exemplary embodiment, plantlets, seedlings, plant pods, or crops may be connected to one another in a linked-chain. The linked-chain may be placed within a gutter that may be provided within a growing facility. The gutter system may include multiple gutters for receiving and growing crops. The gutters may be arranged parallel to one another. In an exemplary embodiment, the gutters may include a linked-chain of plantlets or plant plugs. Plants in a linked-chain configuration can be transplanted together. The chain of plantlets may be densely planted initially and then may be pulled apart to increase spacing as the crops grow and density increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Local Bounti Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan SWEENEY, Ari HOROWITZ
  • Publication number: 20240215507
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to improved vertical farming using autonomous systems and methods for growing edible plants, using improved stacking and shelving units configured to allow for gravity-based irrigation, gravity-based loading and unloading, along with a system for autonomous rotation, incorporating novel plant-growing pallets, while being photographed and recorded by camera systems incorporating three dimensional/multispectral cameras, with the images and data recorded automatically sent to a database for processing and for gauging plant health, pest and/or disease issues, and plant life cycle. The present disclosure is also directed to novel harvesting methods, novel modular lighting, novel light intensity management systems, real time vision analysis that allows for the dynamic adjustment and optimization of the plant growing environment, and a novel rack structure system that allows for simplified building and enlarging of vertical farming rack systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Jacob David Counne
  • Publication number: 20240215508
    Abstract: Methods are provided for identifying and selecting cereal crop breeding lines having high bio-mass values within a period corresponding to Zadok's growth stages of from about Z30 to Z39: for identifying and selecting cereal crop breeding lines having potential for increased yield: and for generating a grain yield prediction in cercal crop breeding lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ralf-Christian Schmidt, Claus Frohberg, Greta De Both
  • Publication number: 20240215509
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stevia plant having a genotype C/C at a position corresponding to position 37 of SEQ ID NO: 1. The present invention also provides a method of producing the stevia plant, and an extract obtained from the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tadayoshi HIRAI, Kazunari IWAKI, Kentaro OCHIAI, Saori TAKEYAMA, Katsuro MIYAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240215510
    Abstract: Several Proso cultivars are disclosed having improved yields. The technology relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of Proso cultivars; and further provides methods for producing progeny of Proso cultivars. The technology also relates to Proso cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from Proso cultivars; and to methods for producing other Proso cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from Proso cultivars, and to the Proso plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The technology further relates to hybrid Proso seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing improved-yield Proso cultivars with another Proso cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick S. Schnable, James C. Schnable, Santosh Rajput
  • Publication number: 20240215511
    Abstract: A wheat variety designated 6PSWZ57B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PSWZ57B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PSWZ57B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PSWZ57B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PSWZ57B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PSWZ57B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: WILLIAM JOSEPH LASKAR, CRISTIANO LEMES DA SILVA, KYLE JAY LIVELY, ANDREW J. STEWART
  • Publication number: 20240215512
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095188. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095188. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095188 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095188 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240215513
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095167. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095167. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095167 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095167 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: BETSABE MANTILLA-PEREZ, Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240215514
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095185. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095185. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095185 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095185 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Betsabe MANTILLA-PEREZ, Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240215515
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095161. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095161. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095161 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095161 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Betsabe MANTILLA-PEREZ, Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240215516
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095158. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095158. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095158 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095158 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Betsabe MANTILLA-PEREZ, Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240215517
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095159. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095159. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095159 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095159 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Betsabe MANTILLA-PEREZ, Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240215518
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095250. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095250. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095250 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095250 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adam BRAY, Sidney Perry
  • Publication number: 20240215519
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095244. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095244. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095244 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095244 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adam BRAY, Sidney Perry
  • Publication number: 20240215520
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095270. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095270. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095270 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095270 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adam BRAY, Sidney Perry