ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,496, issued on July 29, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Methods of measuring harvested crop material" was invented by Friedrich Robert Honeyman (Hesston, Kan.), Kevin J. Hamilton (Newton, Kan.) and Brian Busenitz (Hesston, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring a harvested crop includes measuring a first attribute of a first electric field in a first volume containing crop material, measuring a second attribute of a second electric field in a second volume containing crop material, and determining at least two different properties of the crop material based at least in part on the first attribute and the...