ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,656, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).
"RFID spacing for small square bale aggregates" was invented by Kevin J. Hamilton (Newton, Kan.), Shane A. Bollinger (Hesston, Kan.) and Patrick Kendrick (Hesston, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing information corresponding to crop material formed into a bale during a baling process for an aggregation of bales. Crop material is formed into a bale with the baler to obtain a formed bale. At least one parameter of the crop material or formed bale is detected with at least one crop sensor and/or bale sensor for the formed bale. The baler is provided w...