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US 11,376,608 B2Granted
Modular plant trimming system and method
OwnerMichael Faroinventor
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a modular plant trimming system. A number of plant trimming machines are placed side by side. These plant trimming machines trim leaves from a plant. A sensor detects when one or more of the plant trimming machines are added or removed from the system. A processor then balances a load of plants to be trimmed to be split between the currently available number of plant trimming machines.
Claims13
A modular plant trimming system, comprising:
- a plurality of plant trimming machines that trims leaves from a plant;
- a processor to balance a load of plants to be trimmed between the plurality of plant trimming machines;
- a sensor to determine when one or more plant trimming machines are added or removed from the system and determine a total number of plant trimming machines that are currently coupled to the plant trimming system, wherein the control process re-balances the load between the total number of plant trimming machines whenever there is an addition or removal of a particular plant trimming machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.