US Patent Issued to Flow International on Feb. 3 for "Land cultivating systems and methods utilizing high-pressure fluid jet cutting techniques" (Canadian, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,856, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Flow International Corp. (Kent, Wash.).

"Land cultivating systems and methods utilizing high-pressure fluid jet cutting techniques" was invented by Gregory Dean Butler (Clare, Australia), Jeffrey Evan Martel (Grimsby, Canada), Mohamed A. Hashish (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jean-Christophe Vidil (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example land cultivating system includes a mobile unit, a traveler arrangement operably coupled to the mobile unit to ride on the surface of stubble residues as the mobile unit moves across land to be cultivated, and a fluid jet cutting head supported by the trav...