US Patent Issued to Great Plains Manufacturing on July 21 for "Autonomous agricultural system" (Kansas, Missouri, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,247, issued on July 21, was assigned to Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. (Salina, Kan.).

"Autonomous agricultural system" was invented by David Disberger (Salina, Kan.), Benjamin M. Smith (Yorktown, Va.), Rye DeGarmo (Salina, Kan.), Gregory W. Arnett (Garden City, Mo.), Craig A. Reed (Salina, Kan.) and Chris Coleman (Salina, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous agricultural system comprising an implement configured to perform an agricultural operation. The system additionally comprises an autonomous power unit for autonomously propelling the implement. The system further comprises a coupling assembly configured to connect...