US Patent Issued to SS Turf Technologies on March 24 for "Autonomous robotic system and method for controlling disease incidence in a target C4 turf grass area" (North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,026, issued on March 24, was assigned to SS Turf Technologies LLC (Orangeburg, S.C.).

"Autonomous robotic system and method for controlling disease incidence in a target C4 turf grass area" was invented by Benjamin Copeland Jr. (Fort Valley, Ga.) and Nicholas Sagnella (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling disease incidence of a turfgrass in a target area, includes: providing an autobot capable of automatically applying a UVC light treatment to the target grass area, wherein the target grass area comprises C4 turfgrass. The method and system includes coupling a UVC light subsystem to the ...