ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,883, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to EarthScout LLC (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Real-time soil moisture meter" was invented by Dipesh Karki (Minneapolis), Troy Schmidtke (Minneapolis), Christopher Burg (Minneapolis), Michael Immer (Minneapolis), Peder Lindberg (Fargo, N.D.) and Scott Lawton (Eau Claire, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meter for continuous real time monitoring of soil moisture or alternative logging data associated soil moisture. The meter includes determining a value associated with soil saturation, soil nitrogen mineralization, and growing degree units. These values are made available to the user real time."
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