ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,318, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Wilder Fields LLC (Calumet City, Ill.).
"Apparatus, system and methods for improved vertical farming" was invented by Jacob David Counne (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to improved vertical farming using autonomous systems and methods for growing edible plants, using improved stacking and shelving units configured to allow for gravity-based irrigation, gravity-based loading and unloading, along with a system for autonomous rotation, incorporating novel plant-growing pallets, while being photographed and recorded by camera systems incorporating three di...