ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,144, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Agricultural tool and process" was invented by Pius Ng (Sakai, Japan) and Roatchanatam Anattasakul (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tying/twisting an agricultural item of interest and a support structure together includes capturing the agricultural item of interest with an agricultural tool, capturing the support structure with the agricultural tool, and tying/twisting the agricultural item of interest and the support structure together such that the agricultural item of interest is supported by the support structure."
The patent was filed...