US Patent Issued to SOILMETRIX, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "Enhanced management zones for precision agriculture" (North Carolina, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,697, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SOILMETRIX INC. (Durham, N.C.), IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Ames, Iowa) and NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Enhanced management zones for precision agriculture" was invented by Jeffrey G. White (Raleigh, N.C.), Bradley A. Miller (Ames, Iowa) and Julianne Bielski (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a system and method for agricultural management-zone delineation to be done over broad geographic extents without overly-localized field-specific data. The instant innovation guides precision agricultural sampling and management...