US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on Sept. 1 for "Method of mapping droplet size of agricultural sprayers" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. RE51,017, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Method of mapping droplet size of agricultural sprayers" was invented by Justin McMenamy (Edwards, Ill.) and Ben Schlipf (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of graphically mapping liquid product applied to a field by an agricultural sprayer having a plurality of spray nozzles. The method includes generating an application map on an aerial image of the field, the application map including a droplet size map displaying said droplet sizes being sprayed by each of the plurality of spray nozzles or a gang of spray nozzles as the agricultural ...