ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,763, issued on April 7, was assigned to PLANTX Corp. (Chiba, Japan).

"Cultivation device" was invented by Shunsuke Sakaguchi (Chiba, Japan), Takuji Akiyama (Chiba, Japan), Kazutaka Ohshima (Chiba, Japan), Kosuke Yamada (Chiba, Japan) and Shinjiro Yamada (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cultivation device is disclosed for using in an artificial light plant factory. The device includes a cultivation room having a closable inside and a plurality of cultivation chambers including a plurality of stages in the cultivation room in the vertical direction. The device further includes an air circulation device that supplies air a...