ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,184, issued on April 8, was assigned to Diversified Agriculture LLC.

"Agricultural building environmental control system" was invented by Shawn Engstrom (Willmar, Minn.), Bradley Bowen (Gentry, Ark.), Zur Fabian (Atlanta), Benjamin Davis (Connelly Springs, N.C.) and Donald Wright (Harrington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environmental control system for controlling environmental conditions within an open interior of an agricultural building includes a main controller, and a plurality of zone systems. Each zone system is configured to control environmental conditions within one of a plurality of zones within the open interio...