ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,492, issued on March 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Crop moisture detection in a combine harvester" was invented by Yogesh S. Patil (Jalgaon, India), Nandulal Gavali (Pimpri, India), Chandrashekhar Bapat (Pune, India) and Sourabha S. Gokhale (Ichalkaranji, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester for harvesting crop including a header, to cut crop, and a feeder house having an inlet, connected to the header, and an outlet, wherein the feeder house defines an interior and an exterior located outside the feeder house. The combine harvester includes one or more sensor assemblies connected to the feeder...