ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,040, issued on March 4, was assigned to WinField Solutions LLC (Arden Hills, Minn.).
"Methods of using drift reduction adjuvant compositions" was invented by Daniel Bissell (Eagan, Minn.), Lee Boles (River Falls, Wis.) and Andrea Clark (River Falls, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to reduce bag rupture in a spray dispensed from a nozzle involves detecting one or more bags rupturing from an initial spray pattern of the spray dispensed from the nozzle, the one or more bags comprising a thin membraned semi-spherical protrusion extending from the spray, where the initial spray pattern is a region of the spray initially exiti...