US Patent Issued to FIELDBOT on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for pumping a fluid additive into an irrigation system for field application" (California, Nebraska, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,669, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FIELDBOT LLC (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for pumping a fluid additive into an irrigation system for field application" was invented by Kevin J. Abts (Newport Beach, Calif.), Gerald L. Abts (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Leslie H. Bruntz (Elkhorn, Neb.) and D. James Gonske (Redding, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a reservoir configured to hold a fluid additive, an injector element to inject the fluid additive into the primary fluid applied to a ground surface by the irrigation apparatus, a flow sensor to measure the flow of the fluid additive from the ...