US Patent Issued to Great Plains Manufacturing on July 1 for "Agricultural implement with vision sensors" (Missouri, Kansas, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,740, issued on July 1, was assigned to Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. (Salina, Kan.).

"Agricultural implement with vision sensors" was invented by Gregory W. Arnett (Garden City, Mo.), James Edward Schott (McPherson, Kan.), Paul Harold Haggard (Iowa City, Iowa), Matthew D. Goodon (Salina, Kan.) and Michael Ohnsat (Tipton, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural implement broadly includes a ground-engaging tool, a time-of-flight sensor, and a controller. The time-of-flight sensor is configured to obtain information indicative of seed parameters, furrow parameters, and/or soil condition parameters. The controller is configu...