ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,040, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Method and apparatus for measuring crop throughput" was invented by Georg A. Kormann (Zweibruecken, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for determining a throughput of a harvesting machine. More specifically, a harvesting machine having a throughput sensor and an electronic control device, the throughput sensor calibrated on part of a field with a crop stand of constant density to consider the influence of the rate of advancement and the rate of conveyance of the harvesting machine on the signal of the throughput sensor."
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