Method and system of growing living organisms

• US 10,568,306 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Issued: 02/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DMF SPRL
• Original Assignee: DMF SPRL
• Inventors: De Meester, Fabien
• Primary Examiner(s): Abbott-Lewis, Yvonne R
• Application Number:
  US15/301,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20170172117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,797 Days
• Field of Search: 119300, 119267, 119174
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 7/045 with electric lighting
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/00 Other apparatus for animal husbandry
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 67/00 Rearing or breeding animals, not otherwise provided for; New or modified breeds of animals
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 67/02 Breeding vertebrates
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/14 Measures for saving energy, e.g. in green houses

Abstract

The present invention is related to a method of and a system for growing, maintaining, and/or harvesting living organisms such as plants and/or animals by controlling their physiology and lifetime according to sidereal time, preferably yet not necessarily in phase with sidereal time.

Claims

1. A method of growing, maintaining and/or harvesting multicellular living organisms by controlling their physiology and lifetime according to sidereal time, and reducing via the sidereal time about 4 minutes difference according to present time each day, for a total of about 24 hours every year.

2. The method according to the claim 1 of growing, maintaining and/or harvesting multicellular living organisms by controlling their physiology and lifetime in phase with sidereal time.

3. The method according to the claim 1, wherein the living organisms are plants.

4. The method according to the claim 1, wherein the living organisms are animals.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the animals are selected from the group consisting of poultry and domestic mammals.

6. The method of claim 4, which modify the sex ratio of new born population towards a higher female %.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the female % in the new born population of animals is higher than 75%.

8. The method according to the claim 6 wherein the female % in the new born population is higher than 90%.

9. The method according to the claim 1, wherein controlling of the multicellular living organisms physiology and lifetime are day-time and night-time lighting conditions of living organisms controlled according to the dynamic of the sidereal time.

10. The method according to the claim 9, wherein living organisms lighting conditions have different light source for desired time interval at desired intensity.

11. The method according to the claim 1, wherein the controlling of living organisms physiology and lifetime are feed or liquid administration to living organisms controlled by the dynamic of the sidereal time.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein sidereal time is defined by a sidereal time setter selected from the group consisting of a sidereal clock, a sidereal watch or a sidereal chronometer.

13. A system for growing and/or harvesting multicellular living organisms in a controlled environment, which comprises a sidereal time setter for controlling physiology and lifetime of living organisms according to the dynamic of the sidereal time, the sidereal time setter configured for reducing about 4 minutes difference according to present time each day, for a total of about 24 hours every year.

14. The system of claim 13, comprising a sidereal time setter for controlling physiology and lifetime of multicellular living organisms in phase with sidereal time.

15. The system according to the claim 13, wherein the sidereal time controls day-time/night-time lighting conditions of the multicellular living organisms.

16. The system according to the claim 13, wherein the sidereal time setter controls feed or liquid administration to the multicellular living organisms.

17. The system according to the claim 13, wherein the sidereal time setter is selected from the group consisting of a sidereal clock, a sidereal watch or a sidereal chronometer.

18. The system according to the claim 13, wherein the multicellular living organisms are plants.

19. The system according to the claim 13, wherein the multicellular living organisms are animals.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the animals are selected from the group consisting of poultry or domestic animals.