US Patent Issued to AMVAC Chemical on Nov. 25 for "Tagged container tracking" (California, Tennessee, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,970, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AMVAC Chemical Corp. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Tagged container tracking" was invented by Eric Wintemute (Newport Beach, Calif.), Richard L. Rice (Collierville, Tenn.), Kent James (Springfield, Ill.) and John Richardson (Jacksonville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that automatically monitors product use, such as the type and amount of agricultural and/or horticultural product stored in and dispensed from a cartridge over time and/or by geographic location. Monitored data are stored in memory such as a tag on the cartridge and may be transmitted to a server for storage,...