US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on April 29 for "Device for promoting the growth of plants" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,954, issued on April 29, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Device for promoting the growth of plants" was invented by Simon Vogel (Aachen, Germany) and Stefan Schillberg (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for promoting the growth of plants, which transport the plants using a conveyor belt where roots of the plants protrude into a region located below a lower surface of the conveyor belt and at least parts of leaves and/or fruits of the plants protrude into a region located above an upper surface of the conveyor belt which opposes the lower ...