US Patent Issued to AGCO on Sept. 1 for "Tillage implements, systems, and methods for working a field" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,252, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Tillage implements, systems, and methods for working a field" was invented by Keith Robert Corpstein (Beloit, Kan.) and Jarret Lee Brinker (Beloit, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tillage implement includes a frame, a first sensor coupled to the frame and configured to measure an orientation of the frame, a shank engaged with the frame and carrying a tilling tool, and a second sensor coupled to the shank or the tilling tool and configured to measure an orientation of the tilling tool. A system for working a field includes a tillage implement and a tractor drawin...