ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,745, issued on Feb. 24.
"Automated aeroponics gardening system" was invented by Michael Dean Attleson (Lyle, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable, electric powered self-contained vertical plant housing and watering apparatus including an elongated plant-housing tower having a closed first end, a second end, a hollow interior, and a plurality of removable plant plug-supporting cups extending outward from a sidewall of the tower, a water column supported within the hollow interior of the tower in a fixed condition and running from proximal to the first end to the second end of the tower, a self-contained water basin connect...