US Patent Issued to RUBICON RESEARCH on Oct. 21 for "Method and system for determining surface level and soil infiltration under irrigation" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,399, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RUBICON RESEARCH PTY LTD (Hawthom East, Australia).

"Method and system for determining surface level and soil infiltration under irrigation" was invented by David John Aughton (Hawthorn East, Australia) and Joel Michael Delacorn (Hawthorn East, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to determine a surface level of an area subject to flood, furrow, border-check or surface irrigation. The device includes an open-ended tube partially insertable into a hole in the soil to be irrigated. The tube has a plurality of perforations along its length and periphery to allow water entering perfora...