ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,772, issued on June 3, was assigned to Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG (Damme, Germany).
"Method for operating a root crop conveying machine" was invented by Wolfram Strothmann (Osnabruck, Germany) and Julian Ross (Eslohe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a root crop conveying machine is provided, as well as a root crop conveying machine. Sensor data are recorded by at least one optical sensor. The optical sensor is directed to a measurement region of a flow of harvested material conveyed by at least one conveying element in a conveying direction. On the basis of the sensor data, mass data charact...