ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,525, issued on July 29, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Residue spread monitoring" was invented by Martin Peter Christiansen (Randers, Denmark), Ramon Buchaca Tarragona (Randers, Denmark) and Morten Stigaard Laursen (Randers, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring the distribution of residue material from a spreader tool of an agricultural machine including a sensor, preferably a LIDAR or other scanning transceiver-type sensor mounted or otherwise coupled to the machine and orientated with a sensing region pointing rearwards of the agricultural machine, where opera...