US Patent Issued to Aardevo on July 14 for "Pollination cage and pollination method" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,769, issued on July 14, was assigned to Aardevo B.V. (Nagele, Netherlands).

"Pollination cage and pollination method" was invented by Curtis Frederick (Kampen, Netherlands) and Ruben Hendrik Muilwijk (Harderwijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a pollination cage for the field pollination of a ridge planted crop, the pollination cage comprising: a plurality of frames; and one more nets supported by the plurality of frames; wherein: the frames and one or more nets define at least one enclosed region for containing pollinating insects; and each frame comprises a notched structure for placing on ridged gro...