ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,856, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FOI GROUP LLC (Dallas).

"Automatic rotating agricultural system to irrigate, plant, gather forage, and/or harvest field" was invented by David Munson (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system including a center pivot frame fixed on ground and frame segments connected to each other and rotatably connected to the center pivot frame and are configured to pivot or rotate about the center pivot frame. Each frame segment includes a section frame having wheels, a cutter trolley beam that is coupled to the section frame, a cutterhead coupled to the cutter trolley beam to cut forage or...