US Patent Issued on June 30 for "Devices and method for protecting crop plants and/or sown seeds against unwanted plants" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,097, issued on June 30.

"Devices and method for protecting crop plants and/or sown seeds against unwanted plants" was invented by Robert Ehlers (Kronberg, Germany) and Patrick Buchel (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for protecting crop plants (P) and/or sown seeds (S) against unwanted plants is provided to avoid the use of chemical weed control agents or herbicides. The device includes a ribbon or lace-shaped structure on which a plurality of annular elements are arranged at a distance from one another, in which the structure is designed to be applied to a cultivated surface (F) such that each element encloses t...