ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,227, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INVAIO SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Basel, Switzerland).

"Injection tools for use in plant injection systems, and methods for using thereof" was invented by Michael Christian Oehl (Reinach, Switzerland), Dimitri Verweire (Zurich) and Urs Widmer (Dornach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are injection tools (100; 200; 300; 400; 500) for use in injection systems configured to penetrate a plant and distribute a liquid formulation to the plant. The injection tool includes a base (104; 204; 304; 404; 504) with one or more inlets (122; 222; 322; 422; 522) to receive liquid...