US Patent Issued to Deer & Co. on March 25 for "Methods and apparatus for evaluating agricultural material with an imaging device" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,376, issued on March 25, was assigned to Deer & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus for evaluating agricultural material with an imaging device" was invented by Bret M. Culpepper (West Des Moines, Iowa), James M. Hershbarger (LeClaire, Iowa), James K. Pettit (Urbandale, Iowa) and Steven Coughlen (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a system for evaluating an agricultural material is provided. The system comprising: a housing having a passage in or through an interior of the housing with an inlet for receiving agricultural material and an outlet for outputting the agricultural material; a wall opening ...