ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,837, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GREENROAD B.V. (Enkhuizen, Netherlands).
"Support assembly and method for growing plants therein" was invented by Arnoldus Cornelis Josef Ammerlaan (Enkhuizen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a support assembly for supporting a plurality of layers of essentially horizontally extending meshed support elements, arranged one above the other with a distance therebetween, the support elements being designed to hold units of nutrient substrate spaced from one another, wherein in each unit of nutrient substrate an essentially horizontally growing plant is rooted, in order to al...