US Patent Issued to P&G IP on July 8 for "Method and system for producing, without the help of a substrate, a plurality of rooted cuttings from a plurality of unrooted cuttings" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,635, issued on July 8, was assigned to P&G IP GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and system for producing, without the help of a substrate, a plurality of rooted cuttings from a plurality of unrooted cuttings" was invented by Stefan Reiner (Affalterbach, Germany), Dirk Schimmelpfeng (Remseck, Germany), Per Klemm (Stuttgart, Germany) and Karoline Steinberger (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing, without the help of a substrate, a plurality of rooted cuttings includes inserting at least one unrooted cutting into pockets arranged successively in a longitudinal direction of a strip element. Each pocket...