ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,347, issued on May 12, was assigned to AUTONOMOUSPIVOT LTD (Eshtaol, Israel).
"System and method for turning irrigation pivots into a network of robots for optimizing fertilization" was invented by Eyal Neistein (Herzlyia, Israel), Ran Yifa (Kfar Hahores, Israel), Yaroslav Don (Ramat Yohanan, Israel), Yair Sharf (Aloney Aba, Israel), Yuval Aviel (Eshtao, Israel) and Yossi Haran (Modi'in-Macccabim-Re'ut, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for autonomously varying fertilization levels within a field, the field being divided into a plurality of segments, using an autonomous pivot, may include: applying an amount of...