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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
Applicant:
Grow Solutions Tech Llc, Vineyard, UT (US);
Inventor:
David Smith Broadbent, Santaquin, UT (US);
Assignee:
GROW SOLUTIONS TECH LLC, Vineyard, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 9/08 (2006.01); A01G 9/26 (2006.01); A01G 31/02 (2006.01); A01C 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 9/085 (2013.01); A01C 1/02 (2013.01); A01G 9/26 (2013.01); A01G 31/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for moving wetted seeds from a tank includes positioning a first batch of seeds within a tank, directing water from a water source to the tank, wetting the first batch of seeds within the tank with the water from the water source to initiate germination of the first batch of seeds, releasing the first batch of seeds from the tank to a pod line in fluid communication with an assembly line grow pod after a predetermined time, and subsequent to releasing the first batch of seeds from the tank, detecting a level of seeds remaining in the tank.