ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,012, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Raven Industries Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).
"Valve control system and method" was invented by Justin Krosschell (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Drew John Waltner (Freeman, S.D.), Travis Allen Burgers (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Jacob David Deines (Brandon, S.D.) and Seth Steensma (Sioux Falls, S.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprayer control system includes a plurality of smart nozzles each having at least one control valve with a valve operator, an electronic control unit for the valve operator, and one or more spray nozzles. The at least one control valve and the ECU control a flow rate of liquid agricultura...