US Patent Issued to QUAESTA INSTRUMENTS on May 5 for "Systems and methods of cosmic ray sensing of soil moisture for turf grass and crop management" (Arizona, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,785, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUAESTA INSTRUMENTS LLC (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods of cosmic ray sensing of soil moisture for turf grass and crop management" was invented by Jonathan Dowell (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Steven Hamann (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for cosmic ray sensing soil moisture management included at least one cosmic ray sensor (CRS) positioned within an environment. The CRS detects a plurality of cosmogenic neutrons from a portion of the environment. A computing platform is in communication with the at least one CRS. Data corresponding to the detected plurality of...