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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2022
Applicant:
Precision Planting Llc, Tremont, IL (US);
Inventors:
Sara Collins, Tremont, IL (US);
Ryan Knuffman, Tremont, IL (US);
Assignee:
Precision Planting LLC, Tremont, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A01M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01M 7/0096 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06T 7/97 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01);
Abstract
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 processor to determine a running average for a condition of the nozzle using the assigned rating for the images.