ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,901, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Agricultural tool and process" was invented by Pius Ng (Sakai, Japan) and Roatchanatam Anattasakul (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fastening or attaching an agricultural item of interest to a support structure includes housing one or more clips in a magazine, and moving a sliding arm, which is driven by a motor, between a retracted position and a deployed position to attach a clip, from among the one or more clips, to the agricultural item of interest and the support structure to fasten or attach the agricultural item of interest to the su...