ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,343, issued on July 15, was assigned to MJNN LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Automated placement of plant varieties for optimum performance within a grow space subject to environmental condition variability" was invented by Sudnya Diamos (Menlo Park, Calif.), A Samuel Pottinger (Emeryville, Calif.) and Zachary Duncan Swafford (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining optimum placement, within a grow space, of plants of different varieties. Sets of reference environmental setpoints each correspond to a desired predicted performance of a respective pla...