ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,566, issued on March 18, was assigned to LINDSAY Corp. (Omaha, Neb.).
"Overcurrent protection for irrigation system motors" was invented by Arnel Berton Citurs (Omaha, Neb.) and Mark William Miller (Elkhorn, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overcurrent protection system for a mobile irrigation system. The overcurrent protection system includes a number of control panels each including a controller configured to generate a motor control signal for activating one of the motors of the mobile irrigation system, transmit the motor control signal to the motor, determine a current magnitude of electrical current passing through a mot...