ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,899, issued on July 15.

"Automatic mechanical system in mass production indoor planting with soil" was invented by Jing-Yau Chung (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass indoor production of vegetation system maintains a train in a stationary position on a rail system inside an indoor enclosure during a growing period of vegetation. The train has a plurality of plant-pots interconnected by a plurality of push-pull bars. Each of the plant-pots contains at least one plant. The train of the plant-pots may be moved on the rail system in either direction by pushing or pulling the plurality of push-pull bars. The plurality of plant-...