US Patent Issued to Lisi Global on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for the management of a soil pest or pathogen" (Delaware, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,285, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lisi Global Inc. (Richland, Wash.).

"Method and apparatus for the management of a soil pest or pathogen" was invented by Jason D. Crisp (Newark, Del.), Ekaterini Riga (Newark, Del.) and Gordon J. McComb (Kennewick, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the management of a soil pest or pathogen includes a source of high voltage electricity; at least one capacitor for storing the high voltage electricity; a multiplicity of electrodes inserted into a soil location having a soil pest and/or pathogen to be managed; and an electrical switch which is controllably opened and closes so as to f...