US Patent Issued to Ag Leader Technology on Sept. 16 for "Harvesting system for row-by-row control of a harvester" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,505, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).

"Harvesting system for row-by-row control of a harvester" was invented by Nathan Risius (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically driven corn head and/or a corn head retrofitted with individual electric motor assemblies on each corn head. The corn head configured for row-by-row control of harvesting operations. The corn head and associated systems count and estimate size of stalks and ears. Further the system is configured to measure yield."

The patent was filed on Sept. 7, 2021, under Application No. 17/468,535.

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