US Patent Issued to Motivo Engineering on May 12 for "Active node control planting mode" (California, Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,345, issued on May 12, was assigned to Motivo Engineering LLC (Gardena, Calif.).

"Active node control planting mode" was invented by Alex Herpy (Long Beach, Calif.), Stephen Babin (Sagle, Idaho), Bryan Yaggi (Georgetown, Texas), Itzhak Sapir (Irvine, Calif.), Travis Neidenfeuhr (San Clemente, Calif.), Allen Goad (Valencia, Calif.) and Praveen Penmetsa (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and methods are provided for transplanting slips with an automated slip transplanter. The transplanter comprises a planter unit, a singulation unit, a conveyor belt, a node sensor, and a controller. The planter unit is configure...