US Patent Issued to Reinke Manufacturing on Oct. 21 for "Path-based water capacity determination for ancillary spans" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,499, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Reinke Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Deshler, Neb.).

"Path-based water capacity determination for ancillary spans" was invented by Ty Dane Rempe (Superior, Neb.) and Josiah John Carey (Deshler, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining optimal water capacity or distribution for each of a plurality of sections of a field to be irrigated by an ancillary span of an irrigation system are provided. A path is determined for a steering tower of the ancillary span that is comprised of a plurality of position-based coordinates. The position of the ancillary span steering tower (a...