US Patent Issued to FarmDroid on May 6 for "Method and system for placement of single seeds one by one" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,018, issued on May 6, was assigned to FarmDroid ApS (Vejen, Denmark).

"Method and system for placement of single seeds one by one" was invented by Kristian Vest Warming (Vejen, Denmark) and Jens Vest Warming (Rodding, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for placement of seeds one by one onto a growth medium, whereby initially seeds are extracted and singled-out from a disorderly group of seeds is disclosed. The method comprises: placement of the disorderly group of seeds onto a seed wheel which has a wheel plane, wherein the wheel plane is angled with respect to a horizontal plane such that single seeds are allowed to ent...