US Patent Issued to Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on May 5 for "Automatic seedling taking and separation system for substrate block seedlings" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,103, issued on May 5, was assigned to Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Nanjing, China).

"Automatic seedling taking and separation system for substrate block seedlings" was invented by Zhichao Cui (Nanjing, China), Chunsong Guan (Nanjing, China), Yongsheng Chen (Nanjing, China), Yating Yang (Nanjing, China) and Binxing Xu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automatic seedling taking and separation system includes a seedling taking device, a seedling delivery device, and two seedling separation devices; the seedling taking device conveys substrate block seedlings o...