US Patent Issued to AGCO on Dec. 9 for "Systems for monitoring and using mat thickness and bale growth rate" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,681, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Systems for monitoring and using mat thickness and bale growth rate" was invented by Lucas Andrew Weller (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring bale growth rate and mat thickness and controlling baler operations according to the monitoring of bale growth rate and mat thickness. A baler includes sensors and a control system that uses sensor output as input for its processes. The controller is configured to determine a value of a physical attribute in an operation of a baler based on data received from a sensor. Also, the controll...