US Patent Issued to GREEN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS BVBA on June 30 for "Gutter system and set for use in a hydroponic system and method for cultivating a crop" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,057, issued on June 30, was assigned to GREEN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS BVBA (Mechelen, Belgium).

"Gutter system and set for use in a hydroponic system and method for cultivating a crop" was invented by Frans Andre Victor Cornelius Deforche (Mechelen, Belgium) and Olivier Luc Henriette Frans Deforche (Mechelen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gutter system for use in a hydroponic system for cultivating a crop includes a gutter and an upper surface. Arranged in the upper surface are a plurality of openings which are mutually separated in a longitudinal direction of the gutter, such that the gutter forms a channel in which substrates...