US Patent Issued to Rain Bird on Nov. 4 for "Self-powered irrigation systems, generator systems and methods of controlling irrigation" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,503, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rain Bird Corp. (Azusa, Calif.).

"Self-powered irrigation systems, generator systems and methods of controlling irrigation" was invented by Michael J. Millius (Vail, Ariz.), Riccardo J. Tresso (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Randy R. Montgomery (Tucson, Ariz.), Patrick J. Hibbs (Gilbert, Ariz.), Parthiv A. Rajgor (Marana, Ariz.), Michael A. McAfee (Tucson, Ariz.), Jiangjiang Dai (Tucson, Ariz.), John E. Price (Tucson, Ariz.) and Bradley H. Dolbin (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide irrigation generator systems that include a main conduit comprising an inlet conduit and an ...