US Patent Issued to MJNN on Aug. 5 for "Pickup and laydown station systems for grow tower production" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,556, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MJNN LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Pickup and laydown station systems for grow tower production" was invented by Michael Peter Flynn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Merritt Jonathan Jenkins (Cambridge, Mass.), Gage Goodspeed Coffin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Alexandre Le Roux (Redwood City, Calif.), Charles Dylan Karr (San Francisco) and Nadav Sahar Hendel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for releasably grasping a grow tower. The apparatus comprising a beam, gripper assemblies attached to opposite ends of the beam and an actuator mechanism for controlling the gripper assembli...