ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,761, issued on June 23, was assigned to Agri Blue Co. Ltd. (Takamatsu, Japan).

"Plant cultivation method, plant cultivation apparatus, and photosynthetic organism production method" was invented by Hiroshi Kajiyama (Takamatsu, Japan), Miya Kajiyama (Takamatsu, Japan) and Rin Kajiyama (Takamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Irradiation with main light for photosynthesis and irradiation with additional light with which irradiation can be performed in addition to the main light are performed in at least a part of a cultivation period from sowing to harvesting, and the additional light includes at least additional signal light a...