The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual Technology Transfer Report on Nov. 22, revealing the new inventions researchers, universities, and small businesses created in the past year.
This year’s report includes 222 new inventions, 94 awarded patents, and 125 new patent applications. According to a USDA press release, some prominent discoveries are a bio-refinery that turned a city landfill into an “energy park”, computer chips made from wood fiber, cost-effective solar-powered irrigation pumps for remote communities, and robotic apple pickers.
