US Patent Issued to AGCO on Feb. 18 for "Agricultural machines comprising capacitive sensors, and related methods and apparatus" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,537, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Agricultural machines comprising capacitive sensors, and related methods and apparatus" was invented by Friedrich Robert Honeyman (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine has a capacitive sensor that includes a transmitter assembly having a signal driver, at least one guard driver, and at least one sensing circuit configured to detect an output of the signal driver. At least one sensing electrode is powered by the signal driver. At least one guard electrode is powered by the guard driver. The guard electrode is oriented such that a first e...