US Patent Issued to The Electric Plant on Feb. 17 for "System and method for sensing plant electrical signals" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,875, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Electric Plant Co. Inc. (Detroit).

"System and method for sensing plant electrical signals" was invented by Lee von Kraus (Detroit) and Justin Mast (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variants of the system can include: an electrode module and a reader module. In variants, the system can function to record electrical signals from one or more plants (e.g., the system can function as a plant sensor), which can be used to evaluate the condition of the plant(s) and/or other elements of the environment."

The patent was filed on Sept. 24, 2025, under Application No. 19/338,667.

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