US Patent Issued to Drought Diet Products on Oct. 21 for "Liquid containment and focus for subterranean capillary irrigation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,498, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Drought Diet Products (Fresno, Calif.).

"Liquid containment and focus for subterranean capillary irrigation" was invented by Joseph Dominic Gallegos (Compton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is related to a gravity flow, multipurpose bidirectional nonpressurized climate smart subirrigation conduit apparatus for managing soil moisture and growing plants. The subirrigation conduit apparatus creates a suspended virtual water table at the desired buried depth, thus creating an anaerobic saturated zone and a capillary fringe. The capillary fringe is described in the art as a moi...