ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,913, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Centure Applications LTD (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"System for selective spraying" was invented by Itzhak Khait (Kibutz Ein Zivan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for spot or band spraying of a treatment applied to target areas includes nozzle units that are connected to a liquid conducting member and spaced at horizontal intervals. Each nozzle unit includes first and second nozzles configured to spray droplets around opposing spraying vectors. For each target area, a spraying vector of a first nozzle of a first nozzle unit crosses a spraying vector of a second nozzle of an adjacen...