US Patent Issued to EQUIPEMENTS VEGTECH on March 11 for "Apparatus for feeding a transplanter and a method for feeding a transplanter" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,538, issued on March 11, was assigned to EQUIPEMENTS VEGTECH (Sherrington, Canada).

"Apparatus for feeding a transplanter and a method for feeding a transplanter" was invented by Guillaume Verner (Sherrington, Canada) and Daniel Gagnon (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus having a support frame supports a tray actuation means, a pick up means and a conveyor assembly for feeding a transplanter with viable plants from a multi-celled tray. The tray actuation means is configured to move the multi-celled tray along the support frame. The pick up means is configured to pick up the viable plants by their foliage ...