US Patent Issued to Global Neighbor on Dec. 16 for "Hybrid complementary mechanical and unnatural illumination twin process for reduced seed germination viability" (Ohio, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,787, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Global Neighbor Inc (Dayton, Ohio).

"Hybrid complementary mechanical and unnatural illumination twin process for reduced seed germination viability" was invented by Jonathan A Jackson (Dayton, Ohio), Mark J Elting (Lexington, Va.) and Patrick A Jackson (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid twin process uses an independent mechanical destructive process and an illumination process to change of state of weed seeds to having reduced germination viability by illuminating a seed with at least one of 2 J/cm2 cumulative illumination energy, and 0.2 W/cm2 irradiance, but no more than 7 ...