US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Aug. 4 for "Machine control system and method for analyzing agricultural material" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,841, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Machine control system and method for analyzing agricultural material" was invented by Wilson Pflederer (East Moline, Ill.), Wolfram Haiges (East Moline, Ill.) and Stefan Welsch (East Moline, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for analyzing agricultural material includes a bypass housing configured to receive the agricultural material, a metering conveyor disposed in the bypass housing, at least one sensor configured to detect a fill level of the agricultural material within the bypass housing, and a controller communicatively coupled to the at least one sen...