US Patent Issued to AGCO on July 14 for "Crop monitoring system and method" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,996, issued on July 14, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Crop monitoring system and method" was invented by Ravindra Godbole (Duluth, Ga.) and Darren Goebel (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop monitoring system includes one or more sensors adapted to sense a stalk of a growing crop and generate a detection signal that is representative of the diameter of the stalk. A processor is configured to generate a nutrient status indicator from the detection signal. The nutrient status indicator may also depend partially on VOCs (volatile organic carbon compounds) released by the growing crop. A user interface device i...