ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,806, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Farmers Edge Inc. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Advanced crop manager for crops stress mitigation" was invented by Cecilia M. Tojo Soler (Winnipeg, Canada), Summer Xia (Winnipeg, Canada) and Eduardo Gelcer (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing crop stress related to a crop growing within an agricultural field uses a cropping systems model executed on the computing device to simulate growth of the crop. At least one stress index representative of a crop stress affecting growth of the crop is calculated based upon acquired field centric data and one or more of stress thresh...