ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,744, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to WaterWhen LLC (Bend, Ore.).
"System and method for guiding users in watering plants" was invented by Romain Roux (Vancouver, Canada) and Varda Treibach-Heck (Bend, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for maintaining plants, where each plant is in a container with a growing medium, includes determining a drying profile that is a function of elapsed time from a time of an initial watering state. The drying profiles may be species-specific and may also indicate total weight of the plant, container and growing medium over elapsed time; drying profiles may also be made dependent ...