ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,912, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Plant cultivation apparatus and water supply control method therefor" was invented by Hoon Seok Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae Yang Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant cultivation apparatus and a method for controlling water supply in the plant cultivation apparatus are provided. The plant cultivation apparatus may supply feed water to a bed according to whether or not the feed water supplied to the bed to cultivate plants remains to prevent the feed water from being supplied more than necessary."
The patent was filed o...