ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,349, issued on March 25, was assigned to The University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia).
"Soil moisture estimation" was invented by Amir Orangi (Melbourne, Australia) and Guillermo Andres Narsilio Ferrero (Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calculating a soil moisture profile includes obtaining a capacitance measurement of a soil surface at a location, applying a preselected calibration to the capacitance measurement to obtain a top surface moisture estimate, obtaining local climatic and hydrological data correlated with the location, the local climatic and hydrological data, which includes at least ...