ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,673, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Epiphytic system and epiphytic method" was invented by Yuto Kawata (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An epiphytic apparatus includes a bottomed water tank, a deposition-bed tool on which zoospores released from a mother alga can be deposited, and a vertical light source capable of emitting light toward the zoospores from below. The epiphytic apparatus further includes a plurality of brightness detectors disposed above the bottomed water tank and capable of detecting a brightness distribution of the vertical light source, a distribution calculat...