ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,603, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method of assisted or automated crop transfer synchronization" was invented by Martin Peter Christiansen (Randers, Denmark), Ramon Buchaca Tarragona (Randers, Denmark) and Morten Leth Bilde (Langaa, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an agricultural crop receiving vehicle with a bin for receiving and holding agricultural crop material and an electromagnetic detecting and ranging module for generating data indicating the presence and location of a harvester proximate the agricultural crop receiving vehicle. One or ...