US Patent Issued to Motivo Engineering on Sept. 22 for "Brushed slip holder and operational mechanisms" (California, Idaho, Texas, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,504, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Motivo Engineering LLC (Gardena, Calif.).

"Brushed slip holder and operational mechanisms" was invented by Alex Herpy (Long Beach, Calif.), Stephen Babin (Sagle, Idaho), Bryan Yaggi (Georgetown, Texas) and Will Church (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, 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 configured to plant consistent rows of evenly spaced slips in a field. The singulation unit compr...