ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,399, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to E COLLINSON & Co. LTD. (Lancashire, Great Britain).
"Silo content monitoring system" was invented by Samuel Collinson (Preston, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silo content monitoring system (100) for a silo (102) fitted with a rotatable discharge auger (114, 118). The system has a strain gauge (150) affixed to at least one of the support struts (124) supporting the silo shell (104) above the ground. The strain gauge output (1500) is proportional to the compressive strain in the said silo strut (124), and is used to obtain an estimate of the silo's weight, and hence the weight of...