ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,252, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Rain Bird Corp. (Azusa, Calif.).
"Full-circle and part-circle rotor sprinkler" was invented by Mateusz Grzegorz Kruzel (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor sprinkler is provided that includes a housing having a riser assembly and a rotatable nozzle turret on an upper end of the riser assembly. The rotor sprinkler includes an arc setting assembly that enables part-circle operation of the turret and a selector assembly that permits selection of either part-circle or full-circle mode of the nozzle turret where the full-circle mode rotates in one direction regardless of the direction...