ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,983, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"System and method of assisted or automated grain unload synchronization" was invented by Martin Peter Christiansen (Randers, Denmark), Ramon Buchaca Tarragona (Randers, Denmark) and Dan Hermann (Randers, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvester includes a first electromagnetic detecting and ranging module for detecting the location of a receiving vehicle and a second electromagnetic detecting and ranging module for detecting at least one of a fill level and a distribution of processed crop in a grain bin of the receiving vehicle. One ...