US Patent Issued to Rain Bird on May 13 for "Methods and systems for use in controlling irrigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,296, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rain Bird Corp. (Azusa, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for use in controlling irrigation" was invented by Jonathan I. Marsters (San Diego) and Douglas H. Callison (Winchester, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide systems and methods of controlling irrigation, comprising: communicating an assumption broadcast from a first irrigation controller to each of a plurality of other irrigation controllers defining assumed states of control elements, wherein the control elements are shared with one or more of the first irrigation controller and the other irrigation controllers; de...