US Patent Issued to 1045929 Ontario on March 17 for "Sod harvesting systems and related methods" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,510, issued on March 17, was assigned to 1045929 Ontario Ltd. (Keswick, Canada).

"Sod harvesting systems and related methods" was invented by Gerardus J. Brouwer (Keswick, Canada), Robert Milwain (Keswick, Canada) and Ian L. Morgan (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a stacking head of a sod harvester includes: (a) repeatedly transferring sod slabs from a transfer station located along a conveyor assembly of the sod harvester to a pallet station of the sod harvester to form a loaded pallet at the pallet station; (b) during replacement of the loaded pallet with an empty pallet, forming a stack of s...