ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,662, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Methods of operating an implement in an agricultural field" was invented by Wade L. Stroda (Hesston, Kan.), Michael B. Bayliff (Hesston, Kan.) and Rex Schertz (Hesston, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an implement carrying tillage elements in an agricultural field includes traversing the field with the implement while the tillage elements engage soil of the field, detecting a tillage event based on an operating parameter, recording a location of the tillage event with at least one computer, stopping the implement within the field in response to...