ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,815, issued on May 26, was assigned to Druid Agriculture Inc (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent monitoring and regulation of a controlled cultivation environment" was invented by Julian Walker (Charlotte, N.C.) and Desmond D. Irby (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatic regulation of a controlled agricultural environment includes collecting sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the controlled agricultural environment, generating crop intelligence based on the collected sensor data, identifying one or more crop anomalies in the controlled agricultural environ...