US Patent Issued to Grain Weevil on Sept. 8 for "Traversal based mixture of moist granular material in a bulk store" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,457, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Grain Weevil Corp. (La Vista, Neb.).

"Traversal based mixture of moist granular material in a bulk store" was invented by Benjamin H. Johnson (Omaha, Neb.), Chad E. Johnson (Omaha, 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. The processor obtains a first measurement of an angle of slope of a portion of piled granular material in a bulk store. In response to the first measurement satisfying a first ...