ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,103, issued on Jan. 13.
"Systems and methods for reducing seed theft in planting operations" was invented by Philip Kuhns (Westmoreland, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transferring seed during a planting operation includes receiving, by a theft detection system, a first equipment identity of first equipment, receiving the seed into a seed bin of second equipment from the first equipment, determining, using a sensing device disposed on the second equipment and communicatively coupled to the theft detection system, a first weight value indicative of weight of the seed received into the seed bin from the first equipme...