ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,867, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Naohisa Niimi (Kariya, Japan), Michitake Kuroda (Kariya, Japan), Hiroshi Uchigashima (Kariya, Japan), Tomohiro Yokochi (Kariya, Japan), Hiroshi Tanioku (Kariya, Japan) and Naoki Hasegawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls a water supply device that supplies irrigation water to an open farm field in which a plant grows. The control device includes a storage unit, a calculation unit, and an output unit. The storage unit stores an environment value of each ...