Patent ID: 11877549
Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  Y | IPC A  G

Claim 12:
13. A system comprising:
a substrate loop;
a pulley on which the substrate loop is arranged and configured to move the substrate loop;
a seeding unit configured to inoculate the substrate loop with seaweed spores;
a harvesting unit configured to separate seaweed from the substrate loop;
a cleaning unit configured to free the substrate loop from seaweed; and one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
determining that seaweed has grown to a pre-determined size; and
based on the determination that the seaweed has grown to a pre-determined size:
providing instructions to the pulley to feed a section of the substrate loop to the harvesting unit;
providing instructions to the harvesting unit to separate the seaweed attached to the section of the substrate loop;
providing instructions to the cleaning unit to clean the section of the substrate loop that is freed from seaweed; and
providing instructions to the seeding unit to inoculate the cleaned section of substrate loop with seaweed spores.