ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,976, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SUB-MERGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Southlake, Texas).

"Hollow shaft injection drilling array" was invented by Mitchell J. NewDelman (Monte Carlo, Monaco) and John A. Sanders (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow shaft injection drilling array enables sequential dispensing of a plurality of constituents at targeted depths. The hollow shaft injection drilling array includes an artificial intelligence (AI) robot (1507C); a lens (1405); a computer (1511C); a programmable logic controller (PLC) (1505C); one or more encoders (1605B); one or more limit switches (1809B); a sensor; a plural...