US Patent Issued to Ag Leader Technology on June 30 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for eliminating cross-track error" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,052, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for eliminating cross-track error" was invented by Roger Zielke (Huxley, Iowa) and Scott Eichhorn (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross track error system including a corn head, a row unit disposed on the corn head. The row unit including a set of stripper plates, a resilient member disposed proximal to the stripper plates, a sensor unit in communication with the resilient member, and a processor. The processor is constructed and arranged to process signals generated by the sensor unit in response to deflection of t...