US Patent Issued to LUONNONVARAKESKUS on Feb. 11 for "Apparatus for cultivation of long-stem vegetable plants, related method and uses" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,907, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to LUONNONVARAKESKUS (Helsinki).

"Apparatus for cultivation of long-stem vegetable plants, related method and uses" was invented by Juha Nakkila (Kaarina, Finland), Liisa Sarkka (Littoinen, Finland), Saila Karhu (Turku, Finland), Kari Juhani Jokinen (Helsinki) and Risto Tahvonen (Piikkio, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cultivation of long-stem vegetable plants, related system, methods and uses are provided. The apparatus includes a frame rack with at least one essentially horizontal cultivation platform configured to support a stem portion of at least one long-stem vegetab...