US Patent Issued to AGCO on Oct. 28 for "System and method for assigning weighted average quality value to baled plant material" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,233, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"System and method for assigning weighted average quality value to baled plant material" was invented by Kevin J. Hamilton (Newton, Kan.) and Patrick Kendrick (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for evaluating individual subunits of material incorporated into a bale and, based thereon, assigning a weighted average quality value to the overall bale. A baler receives, aggregates, compresses, shapes, and secures subunits of a plant material into a bale. An NIR testing system receives and analyzes near-infrared radiation reflected by the plant...