US Patent Issued to AGCO International on June 9 for "Material flow sensing system in a combine harvester" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,519, issued on June 9, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Material flow sensing system in a combine harvester" was invented by Dan Hermann (Randers, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester (10) comprises a sensing device (60) to detect or estimate a volume of material other than grain (MOG) flowing through crop processing apparatus. The sensing device (60) is in communication with a controller (101) and is arranged forward of, and below, a front edge (32') of a return pan (32) which serves to catch crop material falling from overhead separating apparatus (20). The sensing...