ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,759, issued on April 7, was assigned to WURTH ELEKTRONIK EISOS GMBH & Co. KG (Waldenburg, Germany).

"Light, apparatus and method for growing plants" was invented by Zhelio Andreev (Schwabisch Hall, Germany), Harun Ozgur (Heilbronn, Germany) and Klaus Richter (Abstatt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light for growing plants includes at least one light source for generating light for growing at least one plant to be grown, at least one detection device for detecting at least one state parameter of the plant, and at least one adjustment device for moving the at least one light source relative to the plant depending on the at l...