US Patent Issued to Rain Bird on May 13 for "Irrigation controller with vertically offset terminal connectors rows" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,958, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rain Bird Corp. (Azusa, Calif.).

"Irrigation controller with vertically offset terminal connectors rows" was invented by Harvey J. Nickerson (El Cajon, Calif.), Kenneth R. Venegas (San Jose, Calif.), Michael D. Goslee (Tucson, Ariz.) and Young Suk Kim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irrigation control device is provided that includes adjacent terminal connector rows having a ridge portion between the rows, where the ridge portion is configured to support and guide wires to the terminal connectors of one row, and to support these wires above wires retained in another row of terminal ...