US Patent Issued to SOIL-MAX on July 1 for "Tile planning and design" (Indiana, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,635, issued on July 1, was assigned to SOIL-MAX INC. (Terre Haute, Ind.).

"Tile planning and design" was invented by Bryan David Horsman (Terre Haute, Ind.), Ryan Christopher Zook (Clinton, Ind.), Joseph Henry Irwin Jr. (West Terre Haute, Ind.) and Brian Allan Dewey (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for drainage tile planning includes steps of presenting a first user interface to a user associated with a field in which drainage tile is to be installed and defining a set of drainage tile plan requirements by receiving through the first user interface and from the user associated with the...