ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,411, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for designing and modeling pressure-compensating drip emitters, and improved devices in view of the same" was invented by Julia Sokol (Cambridge, Mass.), Jaya Narain (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amos Greene Winter V (Somerville, Mass.), Jeffrey Costello (Brighton, Mass.), Dheekshita Kumar (East Walpole, Mass.) and Tristan J. McLaurin (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for modeling ways to best design pressure-controlled drip irrigation emitters are provided. The systems and methods are des...