ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,620, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ARVA INTELLIGENCE CORP. (Salt Lake City).

"Optimal sampling with soil stratification" was invented by Elijah Benjamin Hoffman (Oakland, Calif.), Christopher William Hardin Fedor (Durham, N.C.), Leland David Bernstein (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Thomas A. Dye (Austin, Texas) and John A. McEntire (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining optimal sampling parameters is described. The method gathers soil data from a soil data source, which is associated with a soil organic carbon (SOC) project area. The crop prediction engine then determines that the soil data is l...