ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,281, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Spraying Systems Co. (Wheaton, Ill.).

"Network-based spray physical application equipment monitoring and management" was invented by Kyle M. Bade (Rockford, Mich.) and Rudolf J. Schick (Forest Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networked spray application management arrangement is described herein. The spray application management arrangement includes a spray scan data server and a spray application. The spray scan application, in turn, includes: a spray nozzle monitoring apparatus that renders a process variable data indicative of a current status of a spray nozzle system; and a first...