ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,491, issued on Dec. 2.

"Wet soil plant nursery system" was invented by Franklin Ashbell Brown (Miramar, Fla.) and Ralph Eugene McCoy (Fountain, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wet soil plant nursery system for growing and planting wet soil plants in natural or artificial hydric soil environments. The system can function as or in conjunction with an aeronautical platform connected in moveable relation to at least one translucent enclosure wherein at least one translucent enclosure may, in part, grow and plant wet soil plants. Further, the system can have multiple attachments connected thereto, such as sensor arrays for monitorin...