US Patent Issued to Valmont Industries on March 17 for "System and method for controlling oscillations within an irrigation span assembly" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,514, issued on March 17, was assigned to Valmont Industries Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).

"System and method for controlling oscillations within an irrigation span assembly" was invented by William Hanson (Ames, Neb.) and John Kastl (Wahoo, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system and method for controlling oscillations within an irrigation span assembly. According to a preferred embodiment, a preferred method may include the steps of: detecting a start/stop event input for a first drive tower within a first time period at a first span location; detecting accelerometer data at the first span location within ...