US Patent Issued to LAUDANDO & ASSOCIATES on July 14 for "Cultivating methods and apparatuses" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,822, issued on July 14, was assigned to LAUDANDO & ASSOCIATES LLC (Chico, Calif.).

"Cultivating methods and apparatuses" was invented by Nicholas Charipar (Alexandria, Va.), Chris Laudando (Chico, Calif.) and Matt O'Brien (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cultivator for damaging undesirable plants in an agricultural setting is disclosed. Embodiments of the cultivator include one or more energy emitters that stress target biological material, and the energy emitters in particular embodiments stress plants in at least two different ways, such as imparting light at certain wavelengths that cause dual effect stressors t...