ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,604, issued on May 26, was assigned to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (Harsewinkel, Germany).
"Combine with a bypass device" was invented by Markus Brune (Harsewinkel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-propelled combine configured to collect and handle harvested material and a method for operating the self-propelled combine are disclosed. The combine may include a bypass device that includes an optical measuring device configured to determine one or more harvested material properties of the partial flow of harvested material. The bypass device may have at least one capacitive measuring device for determining the ...