US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on July 8 for "Weeding machine and weeding method for seedlings in paddy field" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,612, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Weeding machine and weeding method for seedlings in paddy field" was invented by Dongdong Du (Hangzhou, China), Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China), Zhenbo Wei (Hangzhou, China) and Dongfang Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weeding machine and a weeding method for seedlings in a paddy field are disclosed. The weeding machine includes a paddy field power chassis, a lifting hydraulic cylinder, a parallelogram suspension frame, a weeding frame, a transmission assembly, and weeding units. The paddy field power chassis vertically adjusts the working d...