ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,640, issued on Dec. 30.
"Tower control box with misalignment indicator light and automatically resetting override switch" was invented by Kurt Jedlicka (Columbus, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tower control box for an intermediate tower of a center pivot irrigation system includes an overtravel shutoff switch configured to be toggled when the intermediate tower is out of alignment with a connected tower of the center pivot irrigation system beyond a misalignment threshold, wherein toggling the overtravel shutoff switch disconnects power to all wheel actuators of the center pivot irrigation system by opening a normally closed ...