US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 1 for "Scale based unload rate calculation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,908, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Scale based unload rate calculation" was invented by Ryan C. Russell (Orion, Ill.) and Stephen R. Corban (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system includes: one or more weight sensors that detect a weight of material in a first material receptacle and generate sensor data indicative thereof; one or more processors; memory; and computer executable instructions, stored in the memory, that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to: determine a change in weight of material in the first material recep...