ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,201, issued on March 3, was assigned to ARKYNE TECHNOLOGIES S.L. (Viladecans, Spain).

"Detection module, interface systems and method for detecting interactions of a user with a living plant and communicating control signals" was invented by Pablo Manuel Vidarte Gordillo (Viladecans, Spain), John Arturo Morales Matos (Viladecans, Spain) and Naroa Uria Molto (Viladecans, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is presented a detection module (10) for detecting capacitance variations in a plant (20), comprising one or more electrodes (11) configured and arranged to be put in electrical communication with the plant (20), one or more cap...