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US 12,214,636 B2Granted
Amphibious vehicle
AssigneeBazooka-Farmstar, LLC
InventorsPhillip Minino, Jeffery Huber, Matthew Hirsch, Jason Albright
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Abstract
An amphibious vehicle having a frame that includes a plurality of floatable members. Mounted to the frame is one or more power sources. Also mounted to the frame and connected to the power source are a plurality of propellers with each of the plurality of propellers having a thrust vector configured to be adjusted to provide agitation and propulsion. In addition, mounted to the frame are a plurality of ground engaging devices and one or more pumps.
Claims12
A method of agitating liquid manure in a liquid manure lagoon, the method comprising:
- identifying a route in a bounded operational area of the liquid manure lagoon within which an amphibious vehicle uses a liquid manure agitation device mounted on the amphibious vehicle to agitate the liquid manure in the liquid manure lagoon;
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- autonomously operating the amphibious vehicle to travel along the route in the bounded operational area of the liquid manure lagoon while the liquid manure agitation device agitates the liquid manure in the liquid manure lagoon using a propeller having a thrust vector that is configured to be directed vertically upward toward a surface of the liquid manure lagoon to cause agitation at the surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.