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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2015
Applicant:

Intelligent Agricultural Solutions, Llc, Fargo, ND (US);

Inventors:

Flemming Schøler, Palaiseau, FR;

Barry D. Batcheller, West Fargo, ND (US);

Marshall T. Bremer, Fargo, ND (US);

Nicholas L. Butts, West Fargo, ND (US);

Paul A. Nystuen, West Fargo, ND (US);

Adam A. Reich, Fargo, ND (US);

Bradley K. Schleusner, Fargo, ND (US);

Bradley R Thurow, Fargo, ND (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/127 (2006.01); G01F 1/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/1277 (2013.01); A01D 41/1272 (2013.01); A01D 41/1273 (2013.01); G01F 1/662 (2013.01); G01F 1/666 (2013.01); G08C 2201/93 (2013.01);
Abstract

A harvesting machine capable of automatic adjustment, comprising a plurality of acoustic material flow sensors, a control system, a processor, and application software, wherein the plurality of acoustic material flow sensors are mounted internal to the harvesting machine at points of crop material flow and are capable of sensing an amount of crop material passing by them, wherein the control system is capable of adjusting a plurality of internal elements of the harvesting machine, wherein the software is hosted on the processor, and the processor is operatively coupled to the control system and the acoustic material flow sensors, wherein the software uses information sensed by the acoustic material flow sensors to determine if the internal elements of the harvesting machine are set for optimal machine performance, and the software sends commands to the internal elements of the harvesting machine in order to improve the machine performance.


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