US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on July 29 for "Magnetic indexing of agricultural sensors" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,520, issued on July 29, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Magnetic indexing of agricultural sensors" was invented by Dan Wood (Fargo, N.D.), Ross Eickhoff (Fargo, N.D.) and Dan Bjertness (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for an agricultural sprayer includes spray nozzles, spray monitoring sensors, electromagnetic sensors, and control circuitry in electronic communication with the electromagnetic sensors. Each spray nozzle is configured to spray a fluid. Each spray monitoring sensor is disposed adjacent to a corresponding one of the spray nozzles and is configured to measure a spray...