ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,683, issued on July 15, was assigned to CLAAS E-Systems GmbH (Dissen a.T.W., Germany).

"System and method for identifying lengths of harvested particles" was invented by Christoffer Rasmussen (Kobenhavn O, Denmark), Kristian Kirk (Koebenhavn, Denmark), Thomas B. Moeslund (Viborg, Denmark), Sven Carsten Belau (Gutersloh, Germany) and Frederic Fischer (Arnsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for identifying, using a computing unit, lengths of a particle in a material flow is disclosed. The computing unit is configured to analyze images of the material flow (13) in an analytical routine and to derive particl...