ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,586, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UVA TOOLS Co LTD (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Automatic system heat fusion-type binding machine for gardening and control method thereof" was invented by Sang Ki Seo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a heat fusion-type binding machine for gardening, which performs a work of binding a crop and a support to each other by heat fusing a tape. The machine includes: a handle body; a tape supply unit including a tape container, and a tape guide unit; a power supply unit disposed at the handle body and supplying power for the heat fusion of the tape; a p...