US Patent Issued to Rain Bird on Dec. 23 for "Activation signal for solenoids and method of activation" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,774, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Rain Bird Corp. (Azusa, Calif.).

"Activation signal for solenoids and method of activation" was invented by Michael Joseph Millius (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an irrigation system and method involving the activation of solenoids. The system may include valves that open to start irrigation and close to stop irrigation and solenoids. Each solenoid may be coupled to a corresponding valve with each solenoid being activated to open its corresponding valve. The system may further include a controller coupled to each solenoid with the controller configured to generate...