US Patent Issued to Local Bounti Operating on March 11 for "System and method for plant indexing in a hydroponic farming environment and a hydroponic farming environment" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,555, issued on March 11, was assigned to Local Bounti Operating Co. LLC (Hamilton, Mont.).

"System and method for plant indexing in a hydroponic farming environment and a hydroponic farming environment" was invented by Travis M. Joyner (Hamilton, Mont.), Ryan Sweeney (Hamilton, Mont.) and Jeff Leggott (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. Finally, plants are transplanted to a gree...