ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,883, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Plant cultivator" was invented by Soobeom Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seok Man Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Youn Ho Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Sangpyo Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaewoong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a plant cultivator that can significantly improve user convenience by significantly simplifying the disassembly and assembly processes for cleaning and holding a main body part, a water tank part, and a cultivation port part and can significantly improve the efficiency and productivi...