ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,812, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The GSI Group LLC (Assumption, Ill.).

"Hardware agnostic systems for converting source signals of agricultural equipment to structured signals for communication over computer networks" was invented by Paul Edward Thornhill (Champaign, Ill.) and Vincent Thibault (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are technologies to enable farming equipment to connect and communicate with a remote computing system. The technologies can be hardware agnostic in that the technologies do not require special hardware adaptations and can operate with different types of hardware and software syst...