US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Operational efficiencies in IOT agricultural ecosystems" (California, Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,253, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Operational efficiencies in IOT agricultural ecosystems" was invented by Craig M. Trim (Ventura, Calif.), Adam Lee Griffin (Cohasset, Minn.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.) and Zachary A Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for improving operational efficiencies in IoT agricultural ecosystems, a processor receives a request from a user for a production plan to modify one or more values of a set of values of an area of interest. A processor maps the area of interest using a set of data originating f...