ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,535, issued on July 29, was assigned to 80 ACRES URBAN AGRICULTURE INC. (Hamilton, Ohio).

"System and method for controlling indoor farms remotely and user interface for same" was invented by Joseph Michael Portello (Fayetteville, Ark.), Michael Zelkind (Hamilton, Ohio) and Patricia Livingston (Hamilton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving, over a computer network, from a plurality of devices installed in an indoor farming module, a plurality of data associated with at least one of: a water level in a watering reservoir, a pH level in an irrigation system, a temperature in the indoor farming module, a humidity ...