ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,770, issued on June 3, was assigned to Subversive Tools Inc. (Cookeville, Tenn.).

"Transplanter" was invented by Carson McNeal (Doyle, Tenn.) and Conor Crickmore (Claryville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transplanter including a frame structure that is configured to support a tray, an operating handle structure, and a base structure including a chute. The frame structure can include a furrower to from a furrow in soil and the transplanter can also include a furrow closing structure configured to close the furrow at a location beyond an end of the chute. The operating handle structure can enable one or more attributes of the o...