ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,267, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MJNN LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Production facility layout for automated controlled environment agriculture" was invented by Gage Goodspeed Coffin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Michael Peter Flynn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Brice Leon Klein (San Francisco), Alexandre Le Roux (Redwood City, Calif.), Nathaniel R. Storey (Laramie, Wyo.), Tamara Tahir Hasoon (Redwood City, Calif.), Merritt Jonathan Jenkins (San Francisco), Maria Alexandria Malone (San Francisco), Matthew James Matera (San Francisco), Kelly Catherine Casie LaBuff (San Francisco) and Alan Colbrie Schoen (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent &...