US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on July 14 for "System and method to determine condition of nozzles of an agricultural implement" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,821, issued on July 14, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"System and method to determine condition of nozzles of an agricultural implement" was invented by Sara Collins (Tremont, Ill.) and Ryan Knuffman (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure there is provided a system including nozzles disposed along an implement, a camera disposed on the implement to capture images of a spray from a nozzle of the nozzles over a time period and a processor to assign a rating to the images to account for the nozzle intermittently being off and not counting the nozzle as plugged. The processo...