US Patent Issued to Raven Industries, South Dakota State University on Feb. 3 for "Determination of droplet characteristics" (South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,872, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Raven Industries Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and South Dakota State University (Brookings, S.D.).

"Determination of droplet characteristics" was invented by Kim-Doang Nguyen (Brookings, S.D.), Praneel Acharya (Brookings, S.D.) and Travis Allen Burgers (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the detection and tracking of droplets sprayed from an agricultural spray nozzle is provided. The system includes a sensor configured to observe droplets sprayed from the nozzle, a frame extractor module, a droplet shape and size extraction module, a droplet tracking module, and ...