
Good news for Jim Ray at Agricola Technology yesterday, Jan. 18, 2022. His patent application is in the final stages. Sheree Rowe, a Partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP in Palo Alto, CA is prosecuting the application with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Brian Floyd, Jim’s roommate from Woodberry Forest School in Woodberry Forest, VA, graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with his PhD in Electrical Engineering, worked with Sheree, and authored the document. James S. Ray, Sr. financed the patent application, James S. Ray, Jr. invented the systems, and James S. Ray, III along with his brother, Mitchell, built the systems for Wayne Community College.
Regards,JigJig Saw, Eclectical Engineer – Agricola Technology – 919-351-5285 – https://agricola.technology/
Patent Application (129302-0001UT01) – Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Provisional application No. 62/584,568 was filed Nov.10, 2017, and the patent application US 2019/0141923 A1 was published May 16, 2019.
Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, NC has five Agricola Technology systems in a linear array with 4 layers that couple photons from adjacent systems for constant lighting intensity in each row. Two redundant mini splits control the environment inside the shipping container on their campus, and they are the first in the State of North Carolina to teach controlled environment agriculture that helps farmers with alternative crops to tobacco like nutritionally-dense microgreens also grown on the International Space Station. Jim, pictured here, worked with the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund to help get funding for the campus development at Wayne Community College where Gabe Mitchell is the Department Chair for Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Jim provided an example for the math involved in scaling the systems:
4 layers * 2 lb/layer = 8 lb per system 8 lb * 28 systems in one 40′ shipping container 224 lb of microgreens harvested every week per container $120k gets the systems and containerAt $85/lb wholesale to restaurants in Richmond, VA for Cilantro microgreens, that’s $20k per week revenue meaning that you pay for the system in 6 months, and it is a little bit like printing your own money from there.

This is great news Jim. I am happy for you. It looks like you have a bright future ahead.
Thank you very much. I could not have done it without you.
Well done Jim, excited to see your business and patent moving forward.
Thank you, sir, for your help along the way.