US Patent Issued to Rubicon Research, The University of Melbourne on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for classifying and benchmarking irrigation performance" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,189, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Rubicon Research Pty Ltd (Victoria, Australia) and The University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).

"Methods and systems for classifying and benchmarking irrigation performance" was invented by Zitian Gao (Victoria, Australia), Danlu Guo (Victoria, Australia), Andrew William Western (Victoria, Australia), Dongryeol Ryu (Victoria, Australia) and David John Aughton (Victoria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method of classifying irrigation status of fields within a geographical region includes identifying a plurality of field areas delineated by field boundaries within the...