ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,636, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Methods and systems for labeling hay with corrected yield" was invented by Kevin J. Hamilton (Newton, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes cutting hay in an agricultural field, determining a mass of the hay, determining a moisture content of the hay, determining an ash content of the hay, calculating a corrected yield of the hay, and labeling the hay with an indicator of the corrected yield of the hay. The corrected yield is based on the mass, the moisture content, and the ash content of the hay."

The patent was filed on March 30, 2022, under Applica...