US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture on June 23 for "System and method to improve the penetration of ultraviolet light into plant beds" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,766, issued on June 23, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington).

"System and method to improve the penetration of ultraviolet light into plant beds" was invented by Fumiomi Takeda (Scotsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strawberry treatment platform includes an outer housing with at least one UV-C light array enclosed in the outer housing, and at least one strawberry plant manipulating assembly that extends downwardly from the outer housing. The strawberry treatment platform is structured so that, as the strawberry treatment platform moves across a strawberr...