ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,876, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).
"Storage grid for vertical farming" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illuminable storage grid is for storing and cultivating crops within containers. The illuminable storage grid includes a plurality of horizontally extending container supporting frameworks distributed vertically with vertical offsets. Each container supporting framework includes a container support for supporting a plurality of containers and a support displacement system for displacing the container...