US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Programmable drip irrigation emitter device" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,273, issued on July 21.

"Programmable drip irrigation emitter device" was invented by Donald T. McGrath (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Louis Price (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Sachinkumar Pandya (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Alberto Jose Acin Martinez (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present invention disclosed herein, there is provided a programmable drip irrigation emitter device, comprising: an input port; a gathering chamber; a flow selection knob; an orifice sized to deliver the desired flow rate of water; one or more output ports; an output distribution chamber, wherein the water i...