US Patent Issued to Lindsay on July 14 for "Mobile irrigation system with plastic optical fiber network" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,765, issued on July 14, was assigned to Lindsay Corp. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Mobile irrigation system with plastic optical fiber network" was invented by Mark William Miller (Omaha, Neb.), Steve Aikman (Omaha, Neb.), Bradford L. Ellison (Omaha, Neb.) and Sandra Regia Patricia Figueiredo da Silveira (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile irrigation system broadly comprising a plurality of irrigation spans each including a mobile tower having a wheel assembly for traversing a field and a motor configured to drive the wheel assembly. The mobile irrigation system also comprises a control system including a plurality of controllers...