US Patent Issued to FLUENCE BIOENGINEERING on July 15 for "Photoperiod manipulation" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,897, issued on July 15, was assigned to FLUENCE BIOENGINEERING INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Photoperiod manipulation" was invented by Matthew Travis Higginbotham (Anderson, S.C.) and Timothy Knauer (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods disclosed herein include an apparatus that includes a user interface configured to receive user input, and a photoperiod controller configured to calculate a photoperiod schedule for one or more plants based on the user input and generate control signals that adjust light output of at least one luminaire to implement the photoperiod schedule."

The patent was filed on March ...