79 patents
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Utility
Device and method for cleansing and treating skin
7 Sep 20
A cleansing device for mammalian skin includes a cleansing head having a plurality of elastomeric cleansing features extending away from the first surface and having an aspect ratio of about 1:5 to 10:1.
Dale G. Kern
Filed: 23 Sep 18
Utility
Devices, systems, and methods for providing and using crop control hardware in a master controller in an assembly line grow pod
31 Aug 20
Devices, systems, and methods for providing and operating crop control hardware are provided herein.
Gary Bret Millar, Kevin Hurst
Filed: 19 Mar 18
Utility
Systems and Methods for Wetting Seed In a Grow Pod System
29 Jul 20
A method for wetting seeds for an assembly line grow pod includes positioning a first batch of seeds within a tank, directing water from a water source to the tank through a lower portion of the tank, wetting the first batch of seeds within the tank with the water from the water source, initiating germination of the first batch of seeds, draining the water from the tank after a predetermined submersion time, subsequent to draining the water from the tank, directing water from the water source to the tank through the lower portion of the tank, wetting the first batch of seeds within the tank with the water from the water source for the predetermined submersion time, and 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.
Jordan Farnsworth Smith
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Germinating Seeds for an Assembly Line Grow Pod
29 Jul 20
A system for an assembly line grow pod includes a germination hub including a tank, a water source in selective fluid communication with the tank, a pump in selective fluid communication with the tank and the water source, a pod line in selective fluid communication with the germination hub, a seeder assembly in selective fluid communication with the pod line, the seeder assembly including a seeder tank, and a metering device in selective fluid communication with the seeder tank, where the metering device selectively releases seeds from the seeder tank, and a cart positioned below the metering device.
Jordan Farnsworth Smith, Scott Nielson
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Watering a Seed Tray
29 Jul 20
A watering station includes a robotic watering device having a first swing arm having a first end opposite a second end, a rotatable robot arm rotatably coupled to a second end of the first swing arm, a first motor configured to pivot the first swing arm, a second motor configured to rotate the rotatable robot arm with respect to the first swing arm, and pump outlets positioned on the rotatable robot arm, one or more pumps fluidly coupled to the pump outlets positioned on the rotatable robot arm, and a fluid reservoir, where the one or more pumps comprises an inlet and an outlet, and the one or more pumps are fluidly coupled to the fluid reservoir such that when activated the one or more pumps draw fluid from the fluid reservoir and disperse a predetermined amount of fluid out the pump outlets.
Gary Bret Millar, Michael Tyler Wirig, Tyler Ray Iverson, Kevin Leon Hurst
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Normalizing Tank Pressure
29 Jul 20
A system for normalizing tank pressures includes a controller, a holding tank, a first reservoir, a first valve fluidly coupled to the first reservoir and communicatively coupled to the master controller, a distribution line fluidly coupling the holding tank to the first valve, a first sensor communicatively coupled to the controller, where the first sensor is configured to output signals corresponding to a fluid level within the first reservoir, and an instruction set that causes the processor to: receive signals from the first sensor, determine whether the fluid level within the first fluid reservoir is below a first threshold, generate a first signal to open the first valve when the fluid level is below the first threshold such that fluid from the holding tank fills the first reservoir, and generate a second signal to close the first valve when the fluid level is not below the first threshold.
Gary Bret Millar, Michael Tyler Wirig, Tyler Ray Iverson
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Germinating Seeds
29 Jul 20
A system for germinating seeds according to a germination recipe is disclosed.
Scott Nielson, Jessica Smith, Jordan Farnsworth Smith
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Moving Wetted Seed Through a Grow Pod System
29 Jul 20
A method for pumping seeds to an assembly line grow pods includes releasing seeds to a pipe in fluid communication with a pump, moving water from a water source to the pipe in fluid communication with the pump, combining the seeds released from the tank with the water from the water source in the pipe, and pumping the combination of the seeds released from the tank and the water from the water source to a grow pod line in fluid communication with the pump, and moving the seeds from the grow pod line to one or more carts of an assembly line grow pod.
Jordan Farnsworth Smith, Charles Thomas Martin, Joseph David Frodsham, David Smith Broadbent
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Managing the Movement of Seeds In a Germination System
29 Jul 20
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.
David Smith Broadbent
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Testing an Industrial Cart In a Grow Pod
29 Jul 20
A testing station for testing an industrial cart includes a controller, a length of track having a first section, a second section, and a third section.
Gary Bret Millar, Michael Tyler Wirig, Mark Gerald Stott
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Systems and methods for communicating data via a plurality of grow pods
13 Jul 20
Systems and methods for facilitating communication among grow pods are provided.
Gary Bret Millar
Filed: 20 May 18
Utility
Systems and methods for using water as a ballast in an assembly line grow pod
15 Jun 20
A method for controlling a balanced state of an assembly line grow pod is provided.
Gary Bret Millar
Filed: 17 May 18
Utility
Systems and Methods for Providing an Industrial Cart In a Grow Pod
3 Jun 20
A cart having a wheel and a cart-computing device communicatively coupled to the wheel, where the cart-computing device receives an electrical signal via the wheel.
Gary Bret Millar, Mark Gerald Stott, Todd Garrett Tueller, Michael Stephen Hurst, Alan Ray Bentley, Taylor John Woodbury, Shane York
Filed: 4 Feb 20
Utility
TENS attachment for device for cleansing and treating skin
25 May 20
A device for delivery of TENS current, attachable to a handheld skin treatment device with a mechanical motion source, comprises a housing for mounting on the handheld skin treatment device, with a conductive skin contact head with first and second electrodes for receiving a TENS signal as a voltage established between the electrodes and a connector mounted in or on the housing and configured to interface with the mechanical motion source to receive the motion of the motion source.
Dale G. Kern, Kevin S. Oberkramer, Jared H. Nathanson, Robert D. Miller, Paul J. Gleason
Filed: 24 May 18
Utility
Systems and Methods for Providing Temperature Control In a Grow Pod
20 May 20
A control system includes a shell including an enclosed area, one or more carts moving on a track within the enclosed area, an air supplier within the enclosed area, one or more vents connected to the air supplier and configured to output air within the enclosed area, and a controller.
Gary Bret Millar, Mark Gerald Stott, Todd Garrett Tueller, Michael Stephen Hurst, Alan Ray Bentley, Taylor John Woodbury
Filed: 27 Jan 20
Utility
Systems and methods for providing an industrial cart for a grow pod
30 Mar 20
A cart having a wheel, a drive motor coupled to the wheel such that an output of the drive motor causes the wheel to rotate and propel the cart, a cart-computing device communicatively coupled to the drive motor; and one or more sensors communicatively coupled to the cart-computing device, the one or more sensors generating one or more signals in response to a detected event.
Gary Bret Millar, Mark Gerald Stott, Todd Garrett Tueller, Michael Stephen Hurst, Alan Ray Bentley, Taylor John Woodbury, Shane York
Filed: 22 Mar 18
Utility
Systems and Methods for Providing Grow Lighting
11 Mar 20
Systems and methods for providing grow lighting are described.
Gary Bret Millar
Filed: 14 Nov 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Managing Plant Growth Within an Assembly Line Grow Pod
26 Feb 20
A lighting system for an assembly line grow pod includes a fixture, an actuator coupled to the fixture, one or more electromagnetic sources positioned at least partially within the fixture, a distance sensor, and a controller communicatively coupled to the actuator and the distance sensor, the controller including a processor and a computer readable and executable instruction set, which when executed, causes the processor to receive a signal from the distance sensor indicative of a detected distance between the distance sensor and plant matter positioned below the one or more electromagnetic sources, determine whether the detected distance is less than a configurable threshold, and in response to determining that the detected distance is less than the configurable threshold, direct the actuator to move the fixture upward in a vertical direction.
Gary Bret Millar
Filed: 31 Jul 19
Utility
Systems and methods for providing temperature control in a grow pod
24 Feb 20
A temperature control system includes a shell including an enclosed area, one or more carts moving on a track within the enclosed area, an air supplier within the enclosed area, one or more vents connected to the air supplier and configured to output air within the enclosed area, and a controller.
Gary Bret Millar, Mark Gerald Stott, Todd Garrett Tueller, Michael Stephen Hurst, Alan Ray Bentley, Taylor John Woodbury
Filed: 2 May 18