US Patent Issued to BELUA BEHEER on Oct. 20 for "Method of growing a crop and harvesting device for use in the method" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,473, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BELUA BEHEER B.V. (Poeldijk, Netherlands).

"Method of growing a crop and harvesting device for use in the method" was invented by Johannes Adrianus Hendricus Maria Van Der Sande (Poeldijk, Netherlands), Dirk Vermeulen (Poeldijk, Netherlands) and Jeroen Wim Van Lent (Poeldijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of growing a crop includes growing a seedling (1) in a first growing substrate plug/pellet (2,4), and placing the substrate plug/pellet (2,4) in a holder member (10,20), the holder member having a tubular body (11,23) and a flange (12,24) extending transversely to the tub...