ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,539, issued on July 29, was assigned to Manna Irrigation Ltd. (Gvat, Israel).

"System and method for managing irrigation of a field plot for a growing season" was invented by Ran Pelta (Golan Heights, Israel), Ofer Beeri (Kibbutz Yagur, Israel), Tal Shilo (Yokneam, Israel) and Shay Mey-tal (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irrigation management method constituted of: applying a global RSP model to received GIV values to forecast global RSP values; and applying a plot-specific RSP model to receive PS IV values to forecast plot-specific RSP values, wherein responsive to the forecast global and plot-specific RSP values...