ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,998, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ROBOTEC PTC GmbH (Bremen, Germany).
"Device and method for propagating plants" was invented by Stephan Von Rundstedt (Bremen, Germany) and Friederike Von Rundstedt (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for propagating plants, by which the propagation rate or growth rate of the plants can be increased. This is achieved in that at least one plant is recorded at least in regions by an image recognition device and plant-specific features of the at least one plant are recognized by a control unit on the basis of the items of information obtained by the image recogniti...