ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,479, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JAPAN AGARICUS Corp. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Production method of agricultural products and hydroponic plants, and powder and granular material" was invented by Sunao Sugihara (Yokohama, Japan), Isao Hattori (Tohkamachi, Japan), Hikoichi Hattori (Tohkamachi, Japan), Tomoji Matsubara (Yokohama, Japan), Takao Nojima (Atsugi, Japan) and Minoru Hoshino (Zama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The powder and granular material provided with reducible activity is prepared by immersing in water a powder and granular material to be used as the treated media for providing reducible activity, in which th...