ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,657, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Method for ascertaining the compaction state of silage stored in a flat silo" was invented by Stefan Brocke (Mannheim, Germany), Norbert Fritz (Ilvesheim, Germany) and Florian Schott (Einhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ascertaining a compaction state of silage stored in a flat silo, in which a work vehicle used for compacting the silage has inflated tires on at least one vehicle axle, includes in a first step, via an acceleration sensor, one or more of a normal and a tangential acceleration occurring in a tire bead is detected and wireles...