US Patent Issued to Environmental Design Intellectual Property Group on July 28 for "Method of moving tree and root ball using tree mover system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,527, issued on July 28, was assigned to Environmental Design Intellectual Property Group LLC (Tomball, Texas).

"Method of moving tree and root ball using tree mover system" was invented by Thomas P. Cox (Spring, Texas) and Mark A. Merit (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of altering the pathway of movement of a tree, a root ball and a platform supporting the root ball that are together being moved using inflatable airbags includes the steps of positioning an additional airbag at partially within the pathway of movement of the root ball on the airbags, the additional airbag being placed at an acute angle to ...