ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,502, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MJNN LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Grow tower alignment mechanism" was invented by Mark Cuson (Los Altos, Calif.), Tamara Tahir Hasoon (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael Peter Flynn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Aidan Patrick Barry (St. Thomas, Canada), Charles Dylan Karr (San Francisco) and Frank Spiteri (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms that facilitate location and alignment of grow towers for one or more processing operations. In one implementation, the alignment mechanism comprises a track including an alignment feature and one or more engagement actuators. The alignmen...