US Patent Issued to CLIMATE on June 17 for "Agricultural operation monitoring apparatus, systems, and methods" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,059, issued on June 17, was assigned to CLIMATE LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Agricultural operation monitoring apparatus, systems, and methods" was invented by Dale Koch (Tremont, Ill.), Brian McMahon (Deer Creek, Ill.), Matt Morgan (Peoria, Ill.), Troy Plattner (Goodfield, Ill.), Jason Stoller (Eureka, Ill.) and Mike Strnad (Delavan, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring soil properties has at least one sensor coupled to a row unit of an agricultural implement and a camera coupled to the row unit of the agricultural implement. The at least one sensor is configured to measure at least one soil property of soil worked...