ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,496, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LandScan Inc. (Davis, Calif.).

"Precision site characterization using digital twin" was invented by Daniel James Rooney (Charleston, S.C.), Stephen P. Farrington (Stockbridge, Vt.), Woody Guthrie Wallace (Madison, Wis.) and Jeffrey W. Dlott (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Subject soils are classified using a sensing tool. By profiling each of a number of first locations that have a ground truth classification, using a deployed sensing tool, digital soil properties of new locations without ground truth classifications can obtained to determine corresponding classifications for the ...