US Patent Issued to Hippo Harvest on Sept. 29 for "High density grow space automation with mobile robots" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,721, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hippo Harvest Inc. (San Francisco).

"High density grow space automation with mobile robots" was invented by Eitan Marder-Eppstein (San Francisco) and Wim Meeussen (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grow space automation system. The system includes growing plants in grow modules that are individually moveable. One or more mobile robots can navigate around a grow space, bring any grow module from one location to another, and perform grow space operations. The grow space operations can be automated using robot-based actuation of automation fixtures. Interactions with plants c...