US Patent Issued to AGCO on Sept. 23 for "Methods of measuring residue during harvest" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,218, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Methods of measuring residue during harvest" was invented by Tresa Sunil (Hesston, Kan.) and Russell H. Gollnick (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring residue ejected from an agricultural machine as the agricultural machine harvests a field includes transmitting an electromagnetic pulse toward a volume generally rearward of the agricultural machine, measuring a reflection of the electromagnetic pulse, calculating a property of residue ejected from the agricultural machine based on the measured reflection of the electromagnetic pulse, ca...