US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on March 3 for "Method and systems for using sensors to determine relative seed or particle speed" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,123, issued on March 3, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Method and systems for using sensors to determine relative seed or particle speed" was invented by Chad E. Plattner (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a processing system (300) comprises memory (314) to store sensor data and processing logic (316) is coupled to the memory. The processing logic is configured to obtain sensor data from at least one sensor (150, 500) for sensing flow of a product through a product line (122) of an agricultural implement (100) and to determine a relative product speed for product flowing through...