US Patent Issued on Sept. 2 for "Tilted plant growing system and method" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,572, issued on Sept. 2.

"Tilted plant growing system and method" was invented by John Edward Aiken (Monroeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present hanging system for growing a potted vegetable plant to an extraordinary unsupported height is generally a tilted open-top liquid-impervious container with a rim adjacent the open top, and an optional soil-containing water-permeable inner container. The liquid-impervious outer container hangs from four elongated suspension members with two adjacent ones 3-9 centimeters longer than the other two so as to tilt the open-top water-impervious container when hung such that the plane ...