ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,206, issued on July 22, was assigned to crop.zone GmbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Method for treating plants" was invented by Fabian Effey (Aachen, Germany), Ronny Galonska (Aachen, Germany), Achim Andres (Aachen, Germany), Peter Frings (Aachen, Germany) and Matthias Eberius (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for treating plants, comprising: (S100) connecting a first, in particular substantially stationarily arranged applicator, which has a first polarity, a second, in particular substantially stationarily arranged applicator, which has a second polarity, and a third, in particular substantiall...