US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on April 15 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for monitoring soil characteristics and determining soil color" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,193, issued on April 15, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods for monitoring soil characteristics and determining soil color" was invented by Michael Strnad (Delavan, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for agricultural monitoring of soil characteristics and determining soil color are described herein. In one example, a method of calculating soil color data includes obtaining, with sensors of a soil apparatus, soil measurements. The method further includes calculating soil color values in a visible spectrum including at least one of red, green, and...