US Patent Issued to Grain Well on June 2 for "Grain management in a bulk store" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,187, issued on June 2, was assigned to Grain Well Corp. (La Vista, Neb.).

"Grain management in a 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 grain management system includes a robot and a computer system located remotely from one another and configured to wirelessly communicate. The robot comprises an auger-based drive system, a memory, and a processor which controls movement of the robot, via the drive system, relative to grain in a bulk store. During a load-in the robot traverses a landing zone portion, where the grain land...