ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,744, issued on July 1.
"System and method for detecting ground-engaging tool plugging on an agricultural implement" was invented by Scott Glovier (Lombard, Ill.) and Joshua D. Knoblauch (Lowpoint, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural implement includes a ground-engaging tool and a computing system. In this respect, the computing system is configured to determine a surface profile of a portion of a field positioned aft of the ground-engaging tool based on the image data generated by a first imaging device. Moreover, the computing system is configured to determine a surface profile of a portion of the field positioned for...