Patents Assigned to FarmX Inc.
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Patent number: 11947354Abstract: An Autonomous Vehicle (AV) system is described. The AV system is capable of determining at motor control command associated with an AV trajectory. The AV system includes a content generating device, a system controller, and an AV sensor. The content generating device collects target data associated with a target. The system controller is communicatively coupled to the content generating device. The system controller extracts target features from the target data. Also, the system controller compares the extracted target features to target model data to determine a target pose. Additionally, the system controller determines the AV trajectory by comparing the target pose with at least one target objective. The AV sensor determines an AV state. The system controller determines a motor control command associated with the AV trajectory based on the AV state, the target objective, and the AV trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: FARMX Inc.Inventors: Edward Lee Koch, Daniel Allan Hennage
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Patent number: 11853021Abstract: Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil are provided herein. Some methods include converting a first frequency of an operating signal into a second, higher frequency relative to the first frequency to create a stimulating signal, transmitting the stimulating signal into soil, and determining attenuation based on a comparison of a responsive signal and the operating signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventors: William Eugene Jennings, Zachary Gentry
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Patent number: 11726075Abstract: Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus are disclosed herein. An example device includes a master element stacked vertically on top of one or more slave elements. The master element and slave elements can communicate through a 1-wire bus configuration. The master element can determine the presence and location of each of the one or more slave elements using an auto-discovery process. The master element can issue commands to the one or more slave elements to obtain moisture readings and/or temperature readings.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventor: William Eugene Jennings
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Patent number: 11519896Abstract: Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus are disclosed herein. An example device includes a master element stacked vertically on top of one or more slave elements. The master element and slave elements can communicate through a 1-wire bus configuration. The master element can determine the presence and location of each of the one or more slave elements using an auto-discovery process. The master element can issue commands to the one or more slave elements to obtain moisture readings and/or temperature readings.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventor: William Eugene Jennings
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Patent number: 11464179Abstract: Systems and methods for providing irrigation water to a soil depth of a crop rootzone in a plurality of crop fields using a sensor network and soil moisture modeling are provided. In various embodiments methods include receiving data from a sensor network in a first crop field and determining a soil moisture model using data from the sensor network in the first field. Various embodiments further include determining a first field irrigation time using the soil moisture model, the first field irrigation time providing irrigation water to a soil depth of the crop rootzone above a Wilting Point (WP) and below a Field Capacity (FC) of soil in the first field, and applying the soil moisture model to a second field.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventors: Robin Lucien Woodby, Kentaro Fitzgerald Kuwata, William Eugene Jennings
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Patent number: 11166404Abstract: Systems and methods for virtual agronomic sensing are provided. In embodiments methods comprise receiving first agronomic data for a first geographic location comprising sensor data from agronomic sensors at the first geographic location; receiving first agronomic information for the first geographic location; and generating first predictive agronomic data for the first geographic location using the first agronomic data for the first geographic location and the first agronomic information for the first geographic location.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventors: Peter Oaklander, Kentaro Fitzgerald Kuwata, Robin Woodby, William E. Jennings
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Patent number: 10983489Abstract: Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil are provided herein. Some methods include converting a first frequency of an operating signal into a second, higher frequency relative to the first frequency to create a stimulating signal, transmitting the stimulating signal into soil, and determining attenuation based on a comparison of a responsive signal and the operating signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventors: William E. Jennings, Zachary Gentry
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Patent number: 10746720Abstract: Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving a first inductance frequency sample from a first oscillator circuit, the first oscillator circuit being coupled with one or more reference inductors; receiving a second inductance frequency sample from a second oscillator circuit, the second oscillator circuit being coupled with one or more mutual inductors that sense soil moisture inductance in an area of soil; receiving a temperature reading from a thermometer, the temperature reading being obtained when the first inductance frequency sample and the second inductance frequency sample were obtained. The example method further includes transmitting the first inductance frequency sample, the second inductance frequency sample, and the temperature reading to a receiver.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventor: William E. Jennings
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Patent number: 10533956Abstract: According to some exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure is related in general to a soil moisture monitoring system comprising a first PVC pipe holding one or more sensing units, a top of the first PVC pipe mated to a âTâ intersection, and a base of the âTâ intersection mated to a rodent resistant cord. The first PVC pipe is generally round in shape with one or more flat surfaces of approximately six inches in length, each flat surface at an approximately 90 degree angle relative to a next closest flat surface. Each of the one or more sensing units further comprises a controller communicatively coupled between two antennas. In most exemplary embodiments, four sensing units may be vertically stacked on the first PVC pipe and configured to transmit eight separate directional radio frequencies into nearby dirt, each of the eight separate directional radio frequencies vertically spaced six inches apart.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventor: William E. Jennings
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Patent number: 10509378Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic irrigation for a micro-climate areas and subterranean soil modeling are provided herein. Some methods include receiving collection of micro-climate data having weather data from a weather station that is proximate a target area, canopy imaging for the target area, depth-specific soil data for the target area, plant health data that includes stomatal conductance and evapotranspiration for plants in the target area, and selectively adjusting operation of an irrigation system so as to increase or decrease water applied to the target area based on analysis of the micro-climate data.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FarmX Inc.Inventors: William E. Jennings, Zachary Gentry