ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,276, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kinze Manufacturing Inc. (Williamsburg, Iowa).
"Connected planter data sharing playthrough" was invented by Ryan McMahan (Williamsburg, Iowa), Jason Schoon (Williamsburg, Iowa), Matthew Moeller (Williamsburg, Iowa) and Matthew Baker (Williamsburg, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Continued and precise operation of an agricultural implement exists even where a subsystem, such as a GPS receiver, wireless communicator, a sensor, or the like, fails, falters, or is otherwise unusable. Data is continually tracked to the extent possible during failure or faltering and is temporarily stored. To conti...