ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,260, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VM SMART LTD (Kfar Maimom, Israel).

"Liquid pumping system with pulse-based volume correction" was invented by Gilad Wolf (Kfar Maimon, Israel) and Amatzya Ben Yosef (Mevo Beitar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is of an apparatus for providing a precalculated amount of fertilizer to a fertigation system. The system features a fertilizer tank for storing a fertilizer, at least one counter for providing electric pulses associated with an amount of fertilizer expelled out of the tank, a pump for delivering an amount of the fertilizer out of the tank and a controller fo...