US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Sept. 2 for "Rapid estimation of a soil-water retention curve using visible-near infrared spectroscopy" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,213, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Rapid estimation of a soil-water retention curve using visible-near infrared spectroscopy" was invented by Jingyi Huang (Madison, Wis.), Zampela Pittaki-Chrysodonta (Madison, Wis.) and Alfred Hartemink (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for accurate modeling of the soil-water retention curve (SWRC) for any soil texture class and with varying amounts of soil organic matter. The disclosed method leverages near-visible infrared spectroscopy (vis-NIRS) to obtain rapid measurements at low soil-water p...