Patents Issued in July 30, 2024
  • Patent number: PP36038
    Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the Shrub class which has abundant, pink flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Poulsen Roser A/S
    Inventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
  • Patent number: PP36039
    Abstract: A variety of rose plant of the shrub class, named ‘AUSernie’. The ‘AUSernie’ is a variety of a rose deeply filled, cupped rosettes of sunset yellow-orange, paling to apricot, and a healthy and upright, bushy shrub with a medium-strong Myrrh fragrance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: David Austin Roses Ltd.
    Inventor: Carl Bennett
  • Patent number: PP36040
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of climber rose plant named ‘LIMsummer’ is disclosed, characterized by late blooming, creamy-yellow and pink striped double flowers with a floral/cinnamon fragrance. Plants are vigorous climbers, and can be grown on their own roots. The new variety is normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Altman Specialty Plants Inc
    Inventor: Peter Lim
  • Patent number: PP36041
    Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the Miniature class which has abundant, yellow-orange white flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Poulsen Roser A/S
    Inventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
  • Patent number: PP36042
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, referred to by its cultivar name, ‘KORpot128’, is described. The new variety forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive, deep pink-colored blossoms. Double, cuplike rosette flowers are exhibited. The vegetation is vigorous, and the growth habit is compact. Attractive ornamental semi-glossy foliage is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: W. KORDES' SÖHNE Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Alexander Kordes
  • Patent number: PP36043
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant, referred to by its cultivar name, ‘KORvibaex’, is described. The new variety forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive, yellow-orange-red colored blossoms. The vegetation is vigorous, and the growth habit is very bushy and upright. Attractive glossy, dark green foliage is formed. Additionally, the new variety is particularly well suited for growing as distinctive ornamentation in the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: W. KORDES' SÖHNE Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Alexander Kordes
  • Patent number: PP36044
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Rosa plant named ‘CHEWARIZONA’ is disclosed, characterized by deeply saturated yellow-amber colored double flowers, and glossy green foliage. Plants have long, repeat flowering periods, and exhibit good resistance to blackspot diseases. The new variety is a Rosa, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Hugh Warner
  • Patent number: PP36045
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Rose plant named ‘ALTgolddragon’ is disclosed, characterized by distinctive fully double yellow flowers with a strong, lemony fragrance. Plants are vigorous and can be grown on their own roots. Plants have semi-upright, spreading habits, and flower continuously from spring to autumn. The new variety is normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Altman Specialty Plants Inc
    Inventor: Peter Lim
  • Patent number: PP36046
    Abstract: A new and distinct evergreen blueberry variety with zero chill requirement named ‘BLUECSOL3’, characterized by the following combination of traits: medium plant vigor, upright growth habit, ovate leaf shape, globose corolla shape and oblate fruit shaped, extra-large fruit size, very strong bloom intensity, medium sweetness and acidity, and firm fruit. Latin name of the genus and species: Vaccinium corymbosum L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Camposol S.A.
    Inventors: Kimberlayn Maria Apsara Sanabria Aguilar, Milagros Janet Granda Mogollon De Montoya, Luis Jose Montgomery Taboada, Jorge David Romero Pajares
  • Patent number: PP36047
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHA474649’, particularly characterized by having numerous large, light greenish-yellow flowers with red-purple lips, leaf attitude is semi-erect, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Anthura B.V.
    Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
  • Patent number: PP36048
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHA882884’, particularly characterized by having numerous white, flecked and striped flowers with extra-large, flecked and striped lips, flat flowers in lateral view, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Anthura B.V.
    Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
  • Patent number: PP36049
    Abstract: A new and distinct Petunia plant named ‘DPETAMPLUC’ is disclosed, characterized by distinctive purple, white, and green flowers with good longevity. Plants have a mounded habit, and bright green foliage. The new variety is a Petunia, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Danziger “DAN” Flower Farm
    Inventor: Gavriel Danziger
  • Patent number: PP36050
    Abstract: ‘HUTAHM06’ is a new and distinctive Homalomena plant which is characterized by a compact, upright growth habit with uniquely variegated foliage borne on long, greyed-red petioles and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation. The new variety is typically produced as an indoor ornamental plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huta Green Company Limited
    Inventors: Pham Ngoc Hung, Le Tuan Anh
  • Patent number: PP36051
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Aglaonema plant named ‘MUKLACY’, characterized by its relatively compact; upright to outwardly arching plant habit; vigorous and robust growth habit; relatively short internodes giving a compact, dense, full and symmetrical plant form; large dark green-colored leaves with greyed green-colored chevrons and apical blotch and with ivory-colored margin edges and apices; strong leaf petioles that are greenish white in color; and relative tolerance to low temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventor: Parthasarathy Mukundan
  • Patent number: PP36052
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Astilbe plant named ‘Go Go Red’, characterized by its relatively compact and broadly upright plant habit; vigorous growth habit; dark green-colored leaves; freely and uniformly flowering habit; long flowering period; reddish purple-colored flowers on upright and strong peduncles; and good container and garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventor: Hans van der Meer
  • Patent number: PP36053
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Docalblore’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading, trailing and decumbent plant habit; vigorous growth habit and moderate growth rate; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large flowers with bright red-colored petals; and good container and garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Arjan Koot
  • Patent number: PP36054
    Abstract: A new and distinct Calibrachoa plant named ‘WNCALSBBL24’, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly spreading and mounding to trailing plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy appearance; early and freely flowering habit; relatively large dark purple-colored flowers with darker purple-colored centers and venation and bright yellow-colored throats; and excellent container and garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: WINGEN, LLC
    Inventor: Ushio Sakazaki
  • Patent number: PP36055
    Abstract: A new and distinct Threadleaf Coreopsis plant, Coreopsis verticillata plant named ‘Heartstrings’, with narrowly-linear, deeply-dissected, 3-lobed, to rarely 6-lobed foliage of bright-green and numerous flowers of rich reddish-raspberry ray florets with cream white edges over a prolonged flowering season from mid-June util late summer. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen plant, en masse, in containers, and as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP36056
    Abstract: A new Sutera plant particularly distinguished by having a pink flower color and large flowers is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: KLEMM + SOHN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Katinka Wilde
  • Patent number: RE50058
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: INFINITY DRAIN LTD.
    Inventors: Jonathan Brill, Bhash Ramkarran, Alan Trink
  • Patent number: RE50059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FANTTIK TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weijun Zhang, Haizhuan Lu
  • Patent number: RE50060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for topical administration of ophthalmic compositions in a dropwise manner, preferably for topical administration of ophthalmic compositions comprising semifluorinated alkanes (SFAs). Further, the present invention relates to the use of said methods in the prevention or treatment of ocular diseases or disorders or any symptoms or conditions associated therewith. In a further aspect, the present invention relates to a kit comprising a drop dispenser at least partially filled with a liquid composition for the use in such a method and directions for use of said drop dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Novaliq GmbH
    Inventors: Gesche Graf, Yasin Ahmed, Stephanie Legner, Philip Kemp
  • Patent number: RE50061
    Abstract: An electric drive device has a motor housing accommodating therein an electric motor; a pair of supporting stems arranged so as to face to each other on an end surface, which is an opposite side to an output shaft portion of a rotation shaft of the electric motor, of the motor housing and extending in a direction of the rotation shaft which is an opposite direction to the output shaft portion; a heat radiation base body arranged between the pair of supporting stems and extending in the same direction as those of the supporting stems; fixing bolts screwed into the heat radiation base body from a radially outer side to a radially inner side through the supporting stems and connecting the supporting stems and the heat radiation base body; one electronic control unit of a redundant system, arranged along a direction in which the heat radiation base body extends and having a board that is fixed to the heat radiation base body with thermal conduction to the heat radiation base body allowed; and the other electronic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Fujimoto, Keiji Hamada
  • Patent number: RE50062
    Abstract: A process for producing acetic acid by: a reaction step for continuously allowing methanol to react with carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a metal catalyst, an ionic iodide, and methyl iodide in a carbonylation reactor, a flash distillation step for continuously feeding a flasher with a reaction mixture from the reactor and evaporating a volatile component at least containing product acetic acid, methyl acetate, and methyl iodide by flash distillation to separate the volatile component and a liquid catalyst mixture at least containing the metal catalyst and the ionic iodide, and an acetic acid collection step for separating a stream containing acetic acid from the volatile component to collect acetic acid; wherein, in the flash distillation step, the flash distillation is conducted under the condition that the concentration of methyl acetate in the liquid catalyst mixture is not less than 0.6% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Shimizu, Ryuji Saito, Hiroyuki Miura, Takashi Ueno, Hidehiko Nakajima
  • Patent number: RE50063
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous fluoropolymer hybrid composition having superior weathering resistance while maintaining excellent mechanical properties in coatings, paints, caulks and adhesives. The composition is comprised of: a) a vinylidene fluoride polymer, such as KYNAR® polymers from Arkema, b) a first vinyl polymer immiscible with the vinylidene fluoride polymer and having a Tg of less than 0° C., and c) a second vinyl polymer of a different composition, also having a Tg of less than 0° C., and containing groups capable of crosslinking. The invention also relates to waterborne coatings or paints containing the aqueous fluoropolymer hybrid composition, and an article, object, or structure coated with the fluoropolymer hybrid composition on at least one surface, either in a factory or in the field, to confer protection and decorative properties. Free films made from the waterborne compositions of the invention have a dynamic mechanical analysis loss tangent, tan (?), of greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Roice A. Wille, Kurt A. Wood
  • Patent number: RE50064
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition including: a lubricating base oil; (A) a poly(meth)acrylate having a weight average molecular weight of no more than 50,000, in an amount of 2 to 10 mass %; (B) a phosphite ester of the general formula (1) in an amount of 0.01 to 0.06 mass % in terms of P; (C) a thiadiazole compound in an amount of 0.01 to 0.2 mass %; and (D) a Ca salicylate detergent in an amount of 0.005 to 0.03 mass % in terms of Ca, wherein the lubricating oil composition has a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 4.0 to 20.0 mm2/s, and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.8 to 5.2 mm2/s; and has a ratio [S]/[P] of 2.2 to 4.0, wherein the [S] represents a sulfur content, and the [P] represents a phosphorus content: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a group having 5 to 20 carbons represented by the general formula (2); and wherein R3 is a C2-17 linear chain hydrocarbon group, and R4 is a C2-17 linear chain hydrocarbon group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Susukida, Takahiro Fukumizu, Takatoshi Shinyoshi, Daisuke Tokozakura
  • Patent number: RE50065
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and products for localized or spatial detection and/or analysis of RNA in a tissue sample or a portion thereof, comprising: (a) providing an object substrate on which at least one species of capture probe, comprising a capture domain, is directly or indirectly immobilized such that the probes are oriented to have a free 3? end to enable said probe to function as a reverse transcriptase (RT) primer; (b) contacting said substrate with a tissue sample and allowing RNA of the tissue sample to hybridise to the capture probes; (c) generating cDNA molecules from the captured RNA molecules using said capture probes as RT primers; (d) labelling the cDNA molecules generated in step (c), wherein said labelling step may be contemporaneous with, or subsequent to, said generating step; (e) detecting a signal from the labelled cDNA molecules; and optionally (f) imaging the tissue sample, wherein the tissue sample is imaged before or after step (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: 10x Genomics Sweden AB
    Inventors: Jonas Frisen, Patrik Stahl, Joakim Lundeberg, Fredrik Salmen
  • Patent number: RE50066
    Abstract: A firearm slide accessory includes a charging handle member including an upper member and a lower member. Both the upper and lower members are formed with internal serrations that mate with external serrations of a slide. One or more fasteners secure the upper and lower members together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: RT Recover Innovations Ltd.
    Inventor: Tamir Porat
  • Patent number: RE50067
    Abstract: A storage device includes a semiconductor memory storing data. A controller instructs to write data to the semiconductor memory in accordance with a request the controller receives. A register holds performance class information showing one performance class required to allow the storage device to demonstrate best performance which the storage device supports, of performance classes specified in accordance with performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihisa Fujimoto
  • Patent number: RE50068
    Abstract: A method for acquiring and disseminating network node characteristics to enable policy decisions including receiving a resolution request from one or more clients in a network environment. Information, for example, network address, is then acquired from one or more sources regarding a specific location in a network, for example, a network node. A list of the network addresses is then generated and ranked based on one or more parameters that merit making traffic handling decisions. The network addresses are then associated with a host name on at least one directory server and then propagated to the one or more clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: ThreatSTOP, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomas L. Byrnes
  • Patent number: RE50069
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is provided for reducing the probability that latency before data transmission increases when a mobile station that is actually in sync is judged to be out of sync. A base station causes the timing calculation part to calculate the timing advance (TA) of a transmit timing from the mth mobile station; causes the timer adaptive control part to obtain the traveling speed or the time variation in TA of the mth mobile station and, adaptively determines and outputs as the timer update information the length of the mth first timer within an M number in total of synchronization timers and the length of the second timer of the mth mobile station and update the length of the mth first timer; and transmits from the downlink transmission part a downlink signal which contains timer update information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Jinsock Lee
  • Patent number: 12048259
    Abstract: An articulating tongue arrangement includes a vehicle attachment section enabling attachment of the articulating tongue arrangement to a tow vehicle, an implement attachment section enabling attachment of the articulating tongue arrangement to an agricultural implement, and an articulating beam assembly located between the vehicle attachment section and the implement attachment section. The articulating beam assembly includes, in turn, a leading end portion movably coupled to the vehicle attachment section at a leading pivoting joint, a trailing end portion movably coupled to the implement attachment section at a trailing pivoting joint, and a beam assembly actuator coupled between the leading end portion and the trailing end portion of the articulating beam assembly. The beam assembly actuator is controllable to adjust an effective tow length of the articulating beam assembly, as measured along a straight line extending from the leading pivoting joint to the trailing pivoting joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Austin J. Jones
  • Patent number: 12048260
    Abstract: An end wheel assembly for transforming an implement frame from a transport position to a field position is provided. The end wheel assembly can have an end wheel, a wheel pivot rotatably connected to the end wheel, a wheel member pivotally connected to the wheel pivot, at least one attachment bracket attached to the wheel member and pivotally attachable to the implement frame, a wheel actuator to raise and lower the end wheel assembly, and a guide plate. The guide plate can have a channel, a first end connected to the wheel member, and a second end connected to the wheel pivot. The channel can be positioned to receive a positioning member when the end wheel assembly is pivoted downwards and to rotate the guide plate causing the wheel pivot and end wheel to rotate relative to the wheel member and turn the end wheel outwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Sakundiak, Lyndon Maurer
  • Patent number: 12048261
    Abstract: A vehicle speed control system that controls a vehicle speed of an agricultural vehicle that performs work using a work device while traveling using a traveling device, the agricultural vehicle performs work travel a plurality of times with non-work travel interposed therebetween, the vehicle speed control system including: a control unit configured to perform work travel control in which a vehicle speed is set according to a load on a motive power source that drives the traveling device and the work device; and a storage unit in which a vehicle speed that is set during the work travel is stored as an optimum vehicle speed, the control unit performs initial work travel control in which a vehicle speed at a time when the work travel is started after the non-work travel is set using the optimum vehicle speed that is stored during the work travel performed before the non-work travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nakabayashi, Tomohiko Sano, Osamu Yoshida, Shotaro Kawahata, Masayuki Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12048262
    Abstract: A system includes a series of converters provided along a boundary of an agricultural cultivated area. A converter is configured to emit a second signal in response to an incoming first signal. The system also includes an autonomously driving agricultural machine including a transmitting device configured to emit the first signal in an environment of the agricultural machine, a receiving device configured to receive the second signal emitted in response to the first signal, and a processing device configured to determine a position of the agricultural machine with respect to the boundary based on the received second signal. An arrangement and/or a conversion characteristic of converters is designed differently at a first section of the boundary than at a second section of the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventor: Chen Zhihu
  • Patent number: 12048263
    Abstract: A flexible and rotatable coupling assembly for a feeder conveyor of a combine harvester, for example. The coupling assembly connects a first rotatable shaft to a second rotatable shaft. The coupling assembly includes a spherical bearing that is connectable to the first rotatable shaft for accommodating a radial or angular misalignment between the first and second rotatable shafts; and a flexible and rotatable coupler that is non-rotatably connectable to the first and second rotatable shafts for transferring rotation between the first and second rotatable shafts. The flexible and rotatable coupler is either directly or indirectly connected to the spherical bearing. The flexible and rotatable coupler has a flexible component for accommodating the radial or angular misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Michael Minnich, Cale Boriack
  • Patent number: 12048264
    Abstract: An Anabasis aphylla field planting device includes a frame body of a mobile machine, a planting frame and a sprinkling irrigation system. A top of the planting frame is arranged with a seedling clamping and conveying mechanism; the seedling clamping and conveying mechanism includes a conveying rod shaft, a rotary supporting and feeding piece, an autorotative driving ring piece, a clamping piece and a driving piece; and the clamping piece includes a fixed supporting rod and a U-shaped clamping body. The planting device is simple in structure and can automatically support and feed the planting seedlings; and after the planting seedlings are filled with soil and irrigated, the supporting and feeding mechanism is automatically separated from the planting seedlings, without manual operation and having high planting efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHIHEZI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ping Jiang, Jianbing Ge
  • Patent number: 12048265
    Abstract: A system for dispensing low rate agricultural products, includes a syringe-based agricultural product metering system, at least one agricultural product tube, and an agricultural product metering system. The agricultural product metering system is operably connected to a source of low rate agricultural products. The agricultural product tube is operatively connected to the agricultural product metering system. The agricultural product metering system is configured to dispense liquid low rate agricultural products at a low rate defined as below 3.7 fluid ounces per 1000 row feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: AMVAC CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keith Woodruff, Richard L. Rice, Larry M. Conrad
  • Patent number: 12048266
    Abstract: A screening belt unit is provided for a harvesting machine or harvested material transportation device and for screening extraneous material out of a mixture of harvested material and extraneous material. A screening belt has at least two endless carriers, preferably in the form of carrier belts or chains, between which screening bars are arranged in a direction transversely to the conveying direction. The screening bars form a plurality of screening bar units that comprise in each case at least two screening bars. At least a part of the screening bars is fixed so as to be movable relative to the endless carriers. The screening belt unit has a positioning means arranged at least locally along the screening belt and acts on the movable screening bars and via which, in the screening zone S as seen in the screening direction, a spacing A in the conveying direction F of successive screening bars is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Julian Ross, Christoph Halbrügge, Josef Gerdes, Franz-Bernd Kruthaup, Heinrich Hönemann
  • Patent number: 12048267
    Abstract: A handle assembly for an autonomous vehicle such as a lawn mower is provided and may include a cradle adapted to receive a mobile computer. The handle assembly may be configured in both an autonomous mode position and a manual mode position. The vehicle may operate autonomously when the handle assembly is in the autonomous mode position, and be adapted to move under manual operator control, e.g., for perimeter training, when the handle assembly is in the manual mode position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: THE TORO COMPANY
    Inventors: Alexander Steven Frick, Jason Thomas Kraft, Aaron Yarrow Curtis, Kevin Dale Docken, Khari Sekou Clarke
  • Patent number: 12048268
    Abstract: A method and system for fostering controlled growth of a turfgrass in a target area, includes: providing an autobot capable of automatically applying a UVC light treatment to the target grass area, wherein the target grass area comprises C4 turfgrass. The method and system includes coupling a UVC light subsystem to the autobot such that the UVC light subsystem is suspended above the C4 turfgrass within the target grass within a first predetermined range. Next, UVC light is generated by the UVC light subsystem with a wavelength within a second predetermined range. Subsequently, the UVC light is emitted from the UVC light subsystem to the C4 turfgrass at an intensity within a third predetermined range. And the UVC light is moved across the C4 turfgrass within the target grass area using the autobot at night at a speed within a fourth predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SS Turf Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Copeland, Jr., Nicholas Sagnella
  • Patent number: 12048269
    Abstract: A harvesting system includes a header pivotally attached to a combine. The header includes a center section to which a left wing and right wing are pivotally attached. A suspension system of the harvesting system includes first and second engageable states that enable dynamic wing behavior and reduce structural load. The first state corresponds to a harvesting configuration of the header in which the wings are allowed to pivot to allow the header to follow changes in terrain. The second state corresponds to a configuration in which the header is elevated relative to the ground. In the second state, the ability of the wings to pivot is minimized as compared to the first state, which allows the header to be maintained in a substantially flat configuration while minimizing the amount of dynamic load imparted by the header on the combine during non-harvesting transport of the header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Bryan R. Yanke, Duane M. Bomleny, Andrew J. Braet, Michael L. Vandeven, Paul D. Marvin
  • Patent number: 12048270
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and other techniques for controlling a velocity of an implement-equipped machine. An actual position of the implement-equipped machine is estimated based on sensor data captured using the machine's sensors. A cross track error between a target position and the actual position is calculated. An actual cross track error metric is calculated based on the cross track error. The actual cross track error metric is compared to a target cross track error metric to determine a velocity adjustment, where the velocity adjustment is determined so as to reduce a difference between the actual cross track error metric and the target cross track error metric. The velocity of the implement-equipped machine is adjusted by the velocity adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: PTx Trimble LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hill, Mark Gibson
  • Patent number: 12048271
    Abstract: One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Deere &Company
    Inventors: Nathan R. Vandike, Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, Noel W. Anderson
  • Patent number: 12048272
    Abstract: An agricultural trellis system is provided and generally includes a notch configured to receive a trellis wire therein and selectively release the trellis wire upward during mechanical pruning. The notch can be positioned on an above-ground portion of a vertical line post or a cross arm. The notch can include a tab extending upward from the bottom of the notch, and a first edge and a second edge each formed on the body. The first edge can be a flat edge and can be positioned laterally outwardly from at least a portion of the second edge, which can be a curved edge. The notch can include a retention protrusion extending laterally into the notch toward the second edge to a position where a lateral distance between the retention protrusion and the first edge in a direction normal to the central plane is less than a diameter of the trellis wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wilson OVS Acquisition Corp.
    Inventors: Zachary R. Zeibak, Steven W. Kuhn, Corey R. Coad, Nicholas M. Arnold, Christian E. Siems
  • Patent number: 12048273
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for cultivating Sphagnum that has been applied to a surface of a field, the method comprising controllably irrigating the Sphagnum, wherein the controllably irrigating comprises applying water to a surface of the Sphagnum and/or to the surface of the field. The invention also relates to Sphagnum obtainable by a method of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Micropropagation Services (E.M.) Limited
    Inventor: Neal Wright
  • Patent number: 12048274
    Abstract: A sprinkler pipe includes an elongated pipe element having at least one longitudinal row of dispensing holes distributed at predefined distances, each of the holes communicating with a drip unit provided inside the pipe and having at least one inlet communicating with the inside of the pipe and at least one outlet communicating with at least one dispensing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventor: Carmelo Giuffrè
  • Patent number: 12048276
    Abstract: A growspace automation system and method. The system includes a grow space with localization structures and a mobile robot. The mobile robot comprises sensors, a mobility mechanism, and a plurality of mobility modules. The mobile robot is configured to automate growspace processes, such as transport, watering, sensing, or cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hippo Harvest Inc.
    Inventors: Eitan Marder-Eppstein, Wim Meeussen, Alexander Boenig
  • Patent number: 12048277
    Abstract: A plant-growing system includes a planting system configured to hold one or more plants, a lighting system including a light source configured to emit light, a watering system configured to communicate liquid to the planting system, or a controller communicatively coupled with the lighting system or the watering system. The controller operates in a plant-growing mode during a first period and operate in a plant-preservation mode during a second period. In the plant-preservation mode, the controller controls the lighting system and the watering system to cause the one or more plants to grow more slowly than in the plant-growing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Gardyn Inc.
    Inventor: Francois-Xavier Rouxel
  • Patent number: 12048278
    Abstract: An instant planter display lid for sizable planters wherein a potted plant can be immediately displayed directly on top. An apparatus for the display of indoor and outdoor, real and artificial, plants recessed into a larger planter without repotting. A quick, easy, money saving, material saving, lightweight, instantaneous planter pot accessory. A unit cover with a centrally located aperture and tapered downwards sidewalls having a slot to rest a potted plant whilst allowing for drainage. A sturdy support lid sloped towards the perimeter to diver liquid and having cap edge to secure over the lip of a planter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventor: Ganeene Edison-Strickling