US Patent Issued to Bushel Plus on March 4 for "Method and apparatus for determining combine efficiency" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,048, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bushel Plus Ltd. (Manitoba, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for determining combine efficiency" was invented by Marcel Kringe (Brandon, Canada) and Christopher Allen Sobchuk (Brandon, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to detect grain loss of a harvester during harvesting operations. The system includes at least two pans magnetically supported on the harvester above a ground surface, by separate electromagnets being electrically isolated from a power source while magnetically supporting the at least two pans. A signal controller generates a release signal when triggered by a user. A ...