US 12,270,804 B2
Soil quality measurement device
Nick Koshnick, San Francisco, CA (US); Phil Baurer, Tremont, IL (US); and Greg Chiocco, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to CLIMATE LLC, Saint Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Climate LLC, Saint Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/026,815.
Application 17/026,815 is a continuation of application No. 16/529,512, filed on Aug. 1, 2019, granted, now 10,782,278.
Application 16/529,512 is a continuation of application No. 15/011,356, filed on Jan. 29, 2016, granted, now 10,393,722, issued on Aug. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/256,643, filed on Nov. 17, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/110,405, filed on Jan. 30, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0048424 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G01N 33/24 (2006.01); A01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01)
CPC G01N 33/24 (2013.01) [A01C 21/005 (2013.01); A01C 21/007 (2013.01); G01N 1/08 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G01N 33/245 (2024.05)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A soil probe comprising:
a central body;
a hollow portion for receiving a soil sample from a soil;
a soil characteristic sensor coupled to the central body and configured to be inserted in the soil to obtain soil characteristic measurements of the soil adjacent to the central body, the soil characteristic measurements including moisture level, soil composition, temperature, and/or reflectivity;
an orientation sensor coupled to the central body and configured to determine an orientation of the soil probe as one of one or more sample quality criteria for the soil sample; and
a computing device communicatively coupled to the soil characteristic sensor and the orientation sensor, wherein the computing device is programmed to:
determine whether the one or more sample quality criteria satisfies a threshold, the threshold including an orientation threshold;
determine a location of a region of soil that the soil sample is received from;
associate an identifier unique to the soil sample with the location of the region of the soil;
store the soil characteristic measurements and the one or more sample quality criteria with the identifier; and
in response to the one ore more sample quality criteria not satisfying the threshold, generate an alert.