US Patent Issued to Earthtec Solutions on March 25 for "Crop-specific automated irrigation and nutrient management" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,680, issued on March 25, was assigned to Earthtec Solutions LLC (Vineland, N.J.).

"Crop-specific automated irrigation and nutrient management" was invented by David Lankford (Vineland, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for crop-specific automated irrigation of an environmental medium and management of nutrients therein. In one aspect, operation of an irrigation apparatus can be regulated according to specific water demand of a crop. The water demand can be assessed by evaluating water content conditions of the environmental medium comprising the crop, medium characteristics, and/or nutrient delivery and transport chara...