ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,495, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Invaio Sciences International GmbH (Basel, Switzerland).

"Injection systems, injection tools and methods for same" was invented by Lukas Rudolf Schupbach (Basel, Switzerland), Urs Widmer (Dornach, Switzerland), Michael Christian Oehl (Reinach, Switzerland) and Antony Mathai Chettoor (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant injection system includes an injection tool configured to penetrate a plant and distribute a liquid formulation to the plant. The injection tool includes a base having an inlet port and a penetrating distribution body extending along a longitudinal body axis. The pe...