ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,476, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cultivation method for fruit vegetable plant" was invented by Takafumi Hosokawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masao Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cultivation method for a fruit vegetable plant, including using a nutrient solution having an electrical conductivity of 5.5 dS/m or more for a period of 3 days or more during a period from after planting to flowering of one flower cluster, and using a nutrient solution having an electrical conductivity lower than the electrical conductivity of the nutrient solution by 1.5 dS/m or more for a period from th...