ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,939, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hippo Harvest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Non-interconnected growth system" was invented by Therese LaRue (Redwood City, Calif.), Chelsea Wirth (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Eitan Marder-Eppstein (San Francisco) and Wim Meeussen (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-interconnected growth system. The system includes a plurality of plant growth units. Each plant growth unit in the plurality of plant growth units is water and nutrient isolated from any other plant growth unit. The system also includes a dynamic nutrient manager configured to collect data from the one or more plant growth uni...