US Patent Issued to Grain Weevil on March 17 for "Robotic grain walk down in a flat storage bulk store" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,526, issued on March 17, was assigned to Grain Weevil Corp. (La Vista, Neb.).

"Robotic grain walk down in a flat storage bulk store" was invented by Benjamin H. Johnson (Omaha, Neb.), Chad E. Johnson (Aurora, Neb.) and Zane Zents (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot comprises an auger-based drive system, a memory, and a processor coupled with the memory and configured to control movement of the robot, via the auger-based drive system, relative to grain in a flat storage bulk store. The processor is further configured to direct traversal, by the robot, of a portion of a pile of the grain in the flat storage bulk store....