ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,642, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method of cultivating fruit vegetable plant" was invented by Takafumi Hosokawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akiko Hattori (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cultivating a fruit vegetable plant, including raising seedlings of the fruit vegetable plant by a flooded hydroponic method using a culture solution having a dissolved oxygen concentration of 3.2 mg/l or more in an environment in which one or more conditions selected from the group consisting of temperature, relative humidity, and light are controlled."
The patent was filed on Dec. 5, 2023, under...