US Patent Issued to SENTEK SYSTEMS on Oct. 21 for "Process for sensing-based crop nutrient management using limiting-rate estimation and yield response prediction" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,669, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SENTEK SYSTEMS LLC (Minneapolis).

"Process for sensing-based crop nutrient management using limiting-rate estimation and yield response prediction" was invented by Bryan T. Poling (Minneapolis) and Theodore C. Poling (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing-based process for managing nutrient fertilization in crops. This invention uses reference plots in a field, fertilized at different pre-plant rates, including at least one plot fertilized at a lower rate than the majority of the field. Measurements from the plots are used to estimate the Current Limiting Rate (CLR), whic...