US Patent Issued to AGCO International on March 25 for "Harvester systems and methods for automated and semi-automated filling of bins of receiving vehicles" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,670, issued on March 25, was assigned to AGCO International GMBH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Harvester systems and methods for automated and semi-automated filling of bins of receiving vehicles" was invented by Martin Peter Christiansen (Randers, Denmark), Esma Mujkic (Randers, Denmark), Ramon Buchaca Tarragona (Randers, Denmark), Morten Stigaard Laursen (Randers, Denmark), Kenneth During Jensen (Randers, Denmark) and Morten Leth Bilde (Langaa, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are technologies that use LIDAR and computer vision to detect a location of a receiving vehicle relative to a forage harvester, fill lev...