US Patent Issued to Klondike Agricultural Products on Oct. 28 for "Method and device for placing seeds in capsules" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,301, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Klondike Agricultural Products LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Method and device for placing seeds in capsules" was invented by Daniel S. Cox (Summit, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for inserting seeds in a capsule includes a seed bin for storing a plurality of plant seeds and a materials bin for storing a growing medium, enables a first tray and a second tray to move to a plurality of positions. At vacuum needle generates a vacuum suction at a tip sufficient to extract a plant seed from a bin. A robot arm, moves the vacuum needle to a plurality of positions. Circuitry controls the...