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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2020
Rain Bird Corporation, Azusa, CA (US);
Jonathan I. Marsters, San Diego, CA (US);
Harvey J. Nickerson, El Cajon, CA (US);
Sundarraj Karthikeyan, San Diego, CA (US);
Douglas H. Callison, Winchester, CA (US);
Steven A. Hollington, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Darin K. Price, San Diego, CA (US);
Rain Bird Corporation, Azusa, CA (US);
Abstract
A decoder-based irrigation controller comprising a controller housing; a first microcontroller within the controller housing; a decoder interface coupled to the first microcontroller; and a handheld user device, wherein the handheld user device comprises an optical imaging device configured to read an optically readable pattern from each of the plurality of decoder units, wherein the handheld user device is configured to cause data read from the optically readable pattern of the plurality of decoder units to be transferred to the first microcontroller, and wherein the data read comprises an address of each of the plurality of decoder units.