ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,551, issued on Dec. 30.
"Autonomous system for grain sampling and grading" was invented by Jerry Hartema (Alden, Iowa), Richard George Struve (Gilbert, Iowa) and Robert Franklin Rasmus (Winterset, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for an autonomous grain facility are described herein. The process could include sampling and grading. For sampling, the system controls a robot to capture position data of a trailer and area data of grain, determines one or more sampling areas within the trailer, and controls the robot to obtain a sample from each of the sampling areas. For grading, the system measures data with both a near inf...