US Patent Issued to AGCO International on June 17 for "Grain cleaning system and method of controlling such" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,064, issued on June 17, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Grain cleaning system and method of controlling such" was invented by Dan Hermann (Randers, Denmark) and Morten Leth Bilde (Langaa, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grain cleaning system for a combine harvester having a transmitter adapted to transmit a base signal at a known frequency and one or more spaced receivers for detecting signals of a different frequency as reflected from airborne grain and other materials within the duct of the grain cleaning system. An Electronic Control Unit modulates the base signal and the reflected signa...