US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus for plant growth experiments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,662, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Apparatus for plant growth experiments" was invented by Peter Andeer (Oakland, Calif.), Lloyd Cornmesser (Ione, Calif.), Thomas Vess (San Ramon, Calif.) and Trent Northen (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to growing plants. In one aspect, an apparatus include a platform, a light emitting diode (LED) panel, one or more imaging modules, a liquid handling unit, a robotic arm, with these components being positioned in a chamber. A first surface of the p...