ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,250, issued on July 21, was assigned to YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA (Oslo, Norway).

"Device for diluting and mixing concentrated aqueous solutions" was invented by Wouter Van Santen (Kortgene, Netherlands) and Wilson Shinji Goto (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for diluting and mixing concentrated aqueous fertilizer solutions. The device may be used to incorporate fertilizer solutions in the irrigation of a farm. The present disclosure also provides the use of the device for distributing fertilizer to a field and a method for distributing a fertilizer solution to crops using an irrigation system."

The patent was file...