US Patent Issued to ONTEKO on Jan. 27 for "Method to enhance substances uptake by plants using selective ablation of light pulses to remove the wax cuticle" (Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,814, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ONTEKO INC. (Olive Branch, Miss.).

"Method to enhance substances uptake by plants using selective ablation of light pulses to remove the wax cuticle" was invented by Luis Vidal Ponce Cabrera (Olive Branch, Miss.), Teresa Flores Reyes (Olive Branch, Miss.) and Alejandro Ponce Flores (Olive Branch, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present is materials and methods for delivering substances to plants. The invention describes a method to enhance substances uptake by plants using selective ablation of light pulses to remove the wax cuticle on a large scale in fields, comprising s...