ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,678, issued on July 22, was assigned to CLIMATE LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Estimating soil properties within a field using hyperspectral remote sensing" was invented by Nick Cisek (San Francisco), Nick Koshnick (San Francisco), Haitao Xiang (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Xianyuan Yang (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining soil properties for an area of land, from soil spectrum data. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving soil spectrum data records from hyperspectral sensors that represent a mean soil spectrum of a specific geo-location of the area of land removing interference signals...