ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,304, issued on May 27, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Plant carrier" was invented by Volker Rollwa (Pirmasens, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant carrier includes an irrigation chamber, an inlet, and a drain which has a drain path arrangement. The drain path arrangement has a first drain path with a first flow direction and a second drain path with at least one outlet into the first drainage path and, in a region of the at least one outlet, a second flow direction of the second drain path has a directional component opposing first flow direction."
The patent was filed on June 21, 2023, under Applica...