US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on June 9 for "Automated irrigation system for trees" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,528, issued on June 9, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Automated irrigation system for trees" was invented by Abdulrahman Ali Alazba (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Moath Abdulrahman Alathbah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Nasser Abdullah Alradyan (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mahmoud Saad Mosa (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automated irrigation system for trees includes a capacitance sensor having a pair of probe plates configured for clamping a trunk of a tree therebetween. The capacitance sensor is configured to measure a capacitance of a portion of the trunk of the tree between the pair of pro...