US Patent Issued to AGCO International on Sept. 2 for "Residue spread monitoring" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,505, issued on Sept. 2, 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), Kenneth During Jensen (Randers, Denmark) and Thomas Smed Bojsen (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 an imaging sensor coupled to an unloading auger of the agricultural machine used to image an area to the rear of the agricultural ...