ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,149, issued on Sept. 2.
"Systems and methods for detecting fill-levels in crop transport receptacles" was invented by Brittany Schroeder (Lowell, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a system for monitoring crop fill-levels of transport receptacles, includes a crop transport receptacle defining a storage volume including at least a first sub-region and a second sub-region. The system also includes first and second fill-level sensors having fields of view directed towards harvested crops contained within the first and second sub-regions of the storage volume, respectively. In addition, the system includes a computing sys...