US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on Feb. 10 for "Methods and systems for measuring duty cycle and pulse frequency of sensors to determine seed or particle metrics" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,628, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for measuring duty cycle and pulse frequency of sensors to determine seed or particle metrics" was invented by Brendan O'Rourke (Pekin, Ill.), William Frank (Manito, Ill.), Tanner Gray (Green Valley, Ill.), Jonathon Jellison (Tremont, Ill.) and Ryan Allgaier (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical control system comprises a display device to display data and at least one sensor to detect or measure a duty cycle and to detect or measure a pulse frequency from a sensor output for sensing flow of a product or particle...