ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,059, issued on March 4, was assigned to Oishii Farm Corp. (Jersey City, N.J.).
"System and method for vertical farming" was invented by Andres Camarena (Jersey City, N.J.), Walter Mielarczyk (Jersey City, N.J.), Hitoshi Kawashima (Jersey City, N.J.) and Bryan Lim (Jersey City, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irrigation system for a vertical farm system including one or more irrigation stations, each of the one or more irrigation stations including one or more tanks that hold irrigation fluid, and one or more spigots that deliver the irrigation fluid from the one or more tanks to the vertical farm system. Each of the one or mor...