ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,549, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Moleda AS (Sylling, Norway).

"Plant treatment assembly and associated method" was invented by Ole Myhrene (Sylling, Norway) and Marten Barel (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Plant heat treatment assembly (100) for elimination of pathogens on living plants, comprising a process chamber (1) with inlet (3) and outlet (5), a pre-chamber (4) with pre-chamber inlet (7) and outlet (6). The pre-chamber outlet communicates with the process chamber inlet. A pump (9) is arranged between the process chamber outlet (5) and the pre-chamber inlet (7), circulating gas through the proces...