ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,839, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to REINKE MANUFACTURING Co. INC. (Deshler, Neb.).

"Data collection system for irrigation systems" was invented by Christopher Charles Roth (Deshler, Neb.) and Russell Scott Reinke (Deshler, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein provides a dual machine irrigation system. The first machine is primarily an irrigation machine and the second machine is primarily a sensor machine, though it may also distribute liquids. The irrigation machine includes an irrigation span and can include multiple irrigation spans. The sensor machine includes a sensor span and can include multi...