US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Oct. 7 for "Plant-safe electrospray water and nutrient delivery system" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,203, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Plant-safe electrospray water and nutrient delivery system" was invented by Jonathan Singer (New Brunswick, N.J.), Seyyed Rahman Pejman (New Brunswick, N.J.), Arend-Jan Both (New Brunswick, N.J.), David Specca (New Brunswick, N.J.) and Michael J. Grzenda (New Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant holder for holding an amount of rooting (growing) media in which plant roots develop that electrically isolates the plant roots from an electric field used to deliver water and plant nutrients to that rooting media via a...