ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,058, issued on March 24, was assigned to MJNN LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Production facility layouts for automated controlled environment agriculture" was invented by Gage Goodspeed Coffin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Michael Peter Flynn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicholas Kalayjian (San Carlos, Calif.), Alan Colbrie Schoen (Los Gatos, Calif.), Andrew Keith James (San Francisco), Arvind Sankaran (San Francisco), Alexandre Le Roux (Redwood City, Calif.), Nadav Sahar Hendel (San Francisco), Anna Olson (San Mateo, Calif.), Michael Bennett Hamilton (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Theodore Howe St. George (San Francisco) and Loren Raymond Pilorin (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstr...