US Patent Issued to PRECISION PLANTING on May 13 for "Methods and systems for using duty cycle of sensors to determine seed or particle flow rate" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,741, issued on May 13, was assigned to PRECISION PLANTING LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for using duty cycle of sensors to determine seed or particle flow rate" was invented by William Frank (Tremont, Ill.), Chad E. Plattner (Tremont, Ill.), Michael Strnad (Tremont, Ill.) and Tanner Gray (Green Valley, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an electronic system comprises a display device to display data and processing logic coupled to the display device. The processing logic is configured to determine a duty cycle of at least one sensor for sensing flow of a product or particle through a product or particl...