US Patent Issued to AGCO on Oct. 27 for "Method for adjusting sensor on swathboard of mower" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,927, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AGCO Corp..

"Method for adjusting sensor on swathboard of mower" was invented by James Kraus (Hesston, Kan.), Kevin J. Hamilton (Newton, Kan.) and Patrick Kendrick (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of collecting nutrient information of plant material as a mower moves over a field. The mower has a swathboard positionable to shape a rearwardly-directed stream of cut plant material into windrows. A sensor is mounted on the swathboard to coincide with the location where the stream of cut plant material interacts with the swathboard. The sensor moves to a base position when the ...