ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,534, issued on July 21, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).
"Soil samplers for monitoring soil conditions" was invented by Mordechai Kornbluth (Brighton, Mass.), Karim Gadelrab (Boston), Soo Kim (Arlington, Mass.), Jonathan Mailoa (Cambridge, Mass.), Georgy Samsonidze (San Francisco) and Kaushal Sagar (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil sampler attachable to a vehicle for agricultural uses includes a collector configured to collect a soil sample from a field as the vehicle advances across the field. The soil sampler further includes a preprocessor connected to the collector and configured to receive the soil sam...