ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,750, issued on July 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Augmented crop loss sensing" was invented by Dohn W. Pfeiffer (Bettendorf, Iowa), Douglas J. Bollin (Port Byron, Ill.) and Lutz Bischoff (Nuenschweiler, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop loss correction system receives one or more crop loss sensor signals that are indicative of crop lost by a harvesting machine. A correction component receives context information from a set of context sensing components to identify a context of the harvesting machine. The correction component corrects the crop loss sensor signals, based upon the context information, to obt...