ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,544, issued on April 22, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Jiangsu, China).
"Self-propelled full-automatic dense-planting vegetable transplanter and planting control method thereof" was invented by Jianping Hu (Jiangsu, China), Jiawei Shi (Jiangsu, China), Tianyi Zeng (Jiangsu, China), Rongjun Tan (Jiangsu, China), Wei Liu (Jiangsu, China) and Rencai Yue (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-propelled full-automatic dense-planting vegetable transplanter and control method thereof includes a seedling taking and throwing mechanism, a box moving device, a crawler-type walking chassis, a seedling guiding device, a soil c...