ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,739, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Control apparatus" was invented by Tomoya Moribe (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Gou Yamanaka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Makoto Takahashi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Hisashi Matsuoka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Yoshiki Okano (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes: a determiner configured to determine, for each indicator of a plurality of indicators, whether an event relevant to a change in the respective indicator has occurred, the plurality of indicators relating to an environment in which crops are grown, each indicator of the plurality of i...