ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,308, issued on July 14, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Cleaning system for a sensor arrangement" was invented by Jared J. Koch (Valley Center, Kan.) and Manish Naryal (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for controlling a cleaning system for a sensing arrangement of an agricultural machine. Utilizing operational data indicative of an output from the sensing arrangement and/or an operational parameter for the agricultural machine, a cleaning strategy for the cleaning system of the sensing arrangement is determined. The invention extends to controlling one or more operable component...