ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,494, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJIAN SANAN SINO-SCIENCE PHOTOBIOTECH Co. LTD. (Quanzhou, China).

"Bimodal blue light for promoting plant growth technical field" was invented by Yang Li (Quanzhou, China), Yiqun Chen (Quanzhou, China) and Jian Ma (Quanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a bimodal blue light for promoting plant growth, which has peaks in wavebands of 431-441 nm and 445-455 nm, respectively. The ratio of the number of photons in the waveband of 445-455 nm to the number of photons in the waveband of 431-441 nm is 1.18-1.54. Test shows that using the bimodal blue light of the...