ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,857, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Residue spread monitoring" was invented by Martin Peter Christiansen (Randers, Denmark), Ramon Buchaca Tarragona (Randers, Denmark), Morten Stigaard Laursen (Randers, Denmark) and Kenneth During Jensen (Randers, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for monitoring and controlling the distribution of residue material from a spreader tool of an agricultural machine. A sensor is mounted to the machine and has a sensing region rearwards of the agricultural machine. Using data from the sensor a distribution of resid...