US Patent Issued to HORSCH LEEB APPLICATION SYSTEMS on June 30 for "Technique for determining a terrain contour and for height control for an agricultural distribution machine with a distribution boom" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,038, issued on June 30, was assigned to HORSCH LEEB APPLICATION SYSTEMS GMBH (Landau an der Isar, Germany).

"Technique for determining a terrain contour and for height control for an agricultural distribution machine with a distribution boom" was invented by Florian Zink (Landau an der Isar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a terrain contour lying ahead in the direction of travel of an agricultural distribution machine includes determining a reference distance of a distribution boom from a reference measuring point of a target area, for example, a ground or crop surface, and determining a distance of th...