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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2018
Monsanto Technology Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jarrett R. Ceglinski, St. Louis, MO (US);
Amanuel G. Ghebretinsae, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Jiha Kim, Seoul, KR;
Richard M. Leimgruber, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Tracy L. Whitehead, Pacific, MO (US);
Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
In a method of measuring moisture in corn, an ear of corn is operatively coupled to a moisture meter and an amount of moisture is determined while the ear of corn is being grown on a corn plant. The moisture meter can use a spectrometry to determine the amount of moisture in the corn. A moisture meter includes a corn interface configured to conformingly engage the ear of corn when pressed against the ear of corn to form an optical seal about an opening through which the spectrometer determines the amount of moisture in the corn to inhibit ambient light from passing between the corn interface and the ear of corn into the at least one opening.