US Patent Issued to TREE DEFENDER on May 13 for "Plant cover device with tubular shape and base member and related methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,293, issued on May 13, was assigned to TREE DEFENDER LLC (Dundee, Fla.).

"Plant cover device with tubular shape and base member and related methods" was invented by Scott K. Thompson (Winter Haven, Fla.) and Thomas A. Thayer Jr. (Winter Haven, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IPC device is over a pole in a ground surface adjacent a plant. The IPC device includes an upper end having a sealed apex and partially defining a plant-receiving cavity therein, a lower tubular end opposite the upper end and also partially defining the plant-receiving cavity therein, and a medial seam coupling the upper end and the lower tubular end. The ...