ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,575, issued on July 29, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Spray monitoring systems, devices, and methods" was invented by Garrett Maurer (Moorhead, Minn.) and Joseph A. Heilman (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring agricultural spray performance includes spraying a fluid from spray nozzles, sensing spray parameters (e.g., droplet size, a flow rate, an application density, or a pressure of the fluid) for the spray nozzles, receiving the spray parameters, generating an average spray parameter value, determining a minimum spray parameter value and a maximum spray parameter value, and d...