US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on July 1 for "Expandable network architecture for communications between machines and implements" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,745, issued on July 1, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Expandable network architecture for communications between machines and implements" was invented by Ryan Allgaier (East Peoria, Ill.) and Ben L. Schlipf (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are expandable network architectures with communication systems having multiple networks for communications between machines and implements for field operations including planting and harvesting operations. In one embodiment, a communication system includes a first communication module including at least one port of a first network, at least on...