ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,933, issued on April 29, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Methods of operating a tillage implement" was invented by Keith Robert Corpstein (Beloit, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a tillage implement includes performing a first calibration of the tillage implement based on a curated library, propelling the tillage implement through a field, capturing an image of the field with a camera carried by the tillage implement, comparing information from the captured image with the curated library, identifying residue based on the comparison of the information from the captured image with the curated library...