ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,887, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Local Bounti Operating Co. LLC (Hamilton, Mont.).
"Root growth optimization method" was invented by Andrew Barao (Hamilton, Mont.), Travis M. Joyner (Hamilton, Mont.), Jeffrey Leggott (Hamilton, Mont.), Drew Myers (Stevensville, Mont.), Seth Swanson (Missoula, Mont.) and Ryan Sweeney (Hamilton, Mont.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming method may be shown and described. In an exemplary embodiment, plants may begin in a germination phase. Next, plants are brought to a nursery for a period of time before optionally being transplanted to one or more subsequent nurseries. Plants in the nurseri...