US Patent Issued to NICHIA on July 1 for "Method of treating plant, method of producing plant infected with microorganism, method of producing fermented plant product, and plant treatment apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,773, issued on July 1, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of treating plant, method of producing plant infected with microorganism, method of producing fermented plant product, and plant treatment apparatus" was invented by Tomohiro Tsurumoto (Yokohama, Japan), Yasuo Fujikawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Yushi Onoda (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a plant by irradiating the plant with light in a wavelength range of 300 nm to 325 nm at a fluence of 4,000 micro metreol/m2 to 50,000 micro metreol/m2, while a fluence of light in a wavelength range of 290 nm or less irradiated to the plant is...