ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,036, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Providing irrigation control via geofencing" was invented by Brian David Wanta (North Augusta, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed to controlling a set of irrigation heads. Such techniques involve initiating an irrigation task that directs the set of irrigation heads to irrigate at least a portion of a geographic area defined by a virtual boundary. Such techniques further involve electronically detecting presence of a device within the geographic area defined by the virtual boundary. Such techniques further involve suspending t...