US Patent Issued to PREMIER HORTICULTURE LTEE on Sept. 29 for "Methods and apparatuses for collecting the acrotelm of peat bogs" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,719, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to PREMIER HORTICULTURE LTEE (Riviere-du-Loup, Canada).

"Methods and apparatuses for collecting the acrotelm of peat bogs" was invented by Bernard Belanger (La Pocatiere, Canada), Guy Gagnon (Riviere-du-Loup, Canada), Eric Houle (Rimouski, Canada), Frederic Caron (Riviere-du-Loup, Canada), Valerie Lavoie (Ste-Helene-de-Kamouraska, Canada), Jean-Luc Richard (St-Louis du Ha! Ha, Canada), Francis Pelletier (Temiscouata-sur-le-Lac, Canada), Alexandre Cyr (Degelis, Canada) and Stephane Robert (Temiscouata-sur-le-Lac, Canada).

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