ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,211, issued on April 15, was assigned to LINDSAY Corp. (Omaha, Neb.).
"Tilt monitoring system for a mobile irrigation system" was invented by Mark William Miller (Elkhorn, Neb.) and Luke Joseph Barker (Omaha, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilt monitoring system for a mobile irrigation system including a sensor and a controller. The sensor is configured to detect a tilt magnitude of the span and generate a corresponding tilt signal. The controller is configured to receive the tilt signal representing the tilt magnitude, generate a deactivation signal representing an instruction to deactivate the drive motor if the tilt magnitud...