US Patent Issued to Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Sept. 23 for "Array cutting knife-type cotton topping machine and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,229, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Nanjing, China).

"Array cutting knife-type cotton topping machine and control method thereof" was invented by Qing Xie (Jiangsu, China), Teng Wu (Jiangsu, China), Fanting Kong (Jiangsu, China), Bin Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Yongfei Sun (Jiangsu, China) and Changlin Chen (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an array cutting knife-type cotton topping machine and a control method thereof. The cotton topping machine includes cameras, controllers, a tacho-generator and a plurality of g...