US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Energy management system and method in combined greenhouses and vertical farms" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,832, issued on Feb. 17.

"Energy management system and method in combined greenhouses and vertical farms" was invented by Yves Daoust (Brossard, Canada) and Denis Dupaul (Blainville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer system for a vertical farming module comprises a closed circuit with a cooling fluid circulating therein and having a fluid-cooled light-supporting tube transmitting heat from a lighting equipment of the vertical farming module to the cooling fluid. The heat transfer also comprises a heat pump operating with a system fluid; an air handling unit receiving the cold system fluid from the heat pump to redu...