ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,265, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Vego Innovations Inc. (Tomball, Texas).

"Self-watering wicking structure and planting device" was invented by Guang-Yuan Xiong (Tomball, Texas), Hong-Jie Yan (Shenzhen, China) and Zhu-Lin Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-watering wicking structure and a planting device are provided, including a separator plate, provided with mounting positions, each mounting position is provided with a communication hole, a space above the separator plate forms a planting space, a space below the separator plate forms a storage space; suction columns arranged below the separator plate,...