US Patent Issued to Local Bounti Operating on Feb. 10 for "Optimization of hybrid growing infrastructure for different weather profiles and market conditions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,089, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Local Bounti Operating Co. LLC (Hamilton, Mont.).

"Optimization of hybrid growing infrastructure for different weather profiles and market conditions" was invented by Gary R. Hilberg (Cypress, Texas), Thomas C. Tillman (Sugar Land, Texas) and Bryan Nguyen (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may respond to different weather profiles and market conditions within a controlled environment agricultural system, which may include one or more power consuming and environment controlling systems. Different market demands and prices may be used to influence which plants are grown ...