US Patent Issued to Valmont Industries on Dec. 9 for "System and method for irrigation management using machine learning workflows" (Nebraska, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,268, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Valmont Industries Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).

"System and method for irrigation management using machine learning workflows" was invented by Jacob L. LaRue (Owasso, Okla.), Andrew Carritt (Fremont, Neb.) and Joshua M. Dixon (Elkhorn, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system and method which includes a machine learning module which analyzes data collected from one or more sources such as UAVs, satellites, span mounted crop sensors, direct soil sensors and climate sensors. According to a further preferred embodiment, the machine learning module preferably creates sets of...