ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,904, issued on July 15, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Nanjing, China).
"Intelligent irrigation control method for rice fields based on cloud service platform and system thereof" was invented by Guangbin Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Xiaoyuan Yan (Jiangsu, China), Wei Zhou (Jiangsu, China), Jing Ma (Jiangsu, China) and Hua Xu (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an intelligent irrigation control method for rice fields based on a cloud service platform and a system thereof. Constructing a planting condition data set and a condition coefficient, monitoring the current water suppl...