US Patent Issued to LINDSAY on June 24 for "Irrigation system shut down timing as a function of distance from a center of rotation" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,461, issued on June 24, was assigned to LINDSAY Corp. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Irrigation system shut down timing as a function of distance from a center of rotation" was invented by Mark William Miller (Omaha, Neb.) and Bradford L. Ellison (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central processor for controlling a shut down of operations of an irrigation system after a problem is detected comprises a processing element configured to: monitor an operation of the irrigation system; determine a problem has occurred requiring a shut down of the operation of the irrigation system; and apply an algorithm to determine a timing of when to shut...