Patents by Inventor Joshua Ekholm

Joshua Ekholm has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240152145
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies for controlling farming machines and generating enhanced operational settings for farming machines based on geographically-linked farming images or advance geographically-linked farming images. In some embodiments, a computing system includes instructions executable by a processor to receive geographically-linked farming images captured by a camera of a farming machine as well as geographic position information of the farming machine linked to the images. Also, the computing system includes instructions executable by a processor to determine enhanced operational settings based on the geographically-linked farming images and the geographic position information. In some examples, the determination of the enhanced operational settings is further based on received additional farming information linked to the geographically-linked farming images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jared J. Koch, Joshua Ekholm
  • Patent number: 11874148
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring a throughput of a crop cut from a field. The system may include, and the method may be performed at least in part using, a combine harvester including a feeder box, a main body, a threshing mechanism, and an organic material throughput sensor provided within the feeder box. The system may also include a data management system. The organic material throughput sensor senses organic material throughput data including at least one of a volume of the organic material, and a weight of the organic material, and the data management system outputs an organic material throughput map or other information based on the organic material throughput data. Using the organic material throughput data or the organic material throughput map, a producer or other operator can make a more informed planting or treatment decision for a field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jared Koch, Joshua Ekholm, Jacob Finger
  • Patent number: 11533845
    Abstract: An apparatus is presented that receives first and second parameters including first parameters from plural harvesting machines, determines a batch unload for a specified quantity of material to unload from each of the harvesting machines, requests permission to receive the batch unload from one of the harvesting machines, and communicates a control signal to trigger the requested batch unload from the one of the harvesting machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jared J Koch, Joshua Ekholm
  • Publication number: 20220207733
    Abstract: Technologies for determining test weight of a crop (such as technologies for determining test weight of corn) can be more accurate. The technologies can include a computing device configured to determine dimensions of kernels of a harvested crop in a combine harvester as well determine test weight of the crop based on the determined dimensions of the kernels. The determination can include deriving the test weight from a table including correlations between kernel dimensions and test weights. The table can be enhanced by a feedback loop, and the technologies can include a computing device that is configured to communicate test weights to an operator of a combine harvester during or after processing of the crop by the harvester. The technologies can also include a device that can generate a test-weight map based on determined test weights and locations of a crop field associated with the determined test weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Jared J. KOCH, Joshua EKHOLM
  • Publication number: 20210195839
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring a throughput of a crop cut from a field. The system may include, and the method may be performed at least in part using, a combine harvester including a feeder box, a main body, a threshing mechanism, and an organic material throughput sensor provided within the feeder box. The system may also include a data management system. The organic material throughput sensor senses organic material throughput data including at least one of a volume of the organic material, and a weight of the organic material, and the data management system outputs an organic material throughput map or other information based on the organic material throughput data. Using the organic material throughput data or the organic material throughput map, a producer or other operator can make a more informed planting or treatment decision for a field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jared Koch, Joshua Ekholm, Jacob Finger
  • Publication number: 20200196526
    Abstract: An apparatus is presented that receives first and second parameters including first parameters from plural harvesting machines, determines a batch unload for a specified quantity of material to unload from each of the harvesting machines, requests permission to receive the batch unload from one of the harvesting machines, and communicates a control signal to trigger the requested batch unload from the one of the harvesting machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Jared J. Koch, Joshua Ekholm
  • Patent number: D822683
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jay Leininger, Joshua Ekholm, Jared Koch, Gerald R. Johnson
  • Patent number: D823318
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jay Leininger, Joshua Ekholm, Jared Koch, Gerald R. Johnson
  • Patent number: D831042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jay Leininger, Joshua Ekholm, Jared Koch, Gerald R. Johnson
  • Patent number: D831043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jay Leininger, Joshua Ekholm, Jared Koch, Gerald R. Johnson
  • Patent number: D831044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jay Leininger, Joshua Ekholm, Jared Koch, Gerald R. Johnson
  • Patent number: D831045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jay Leininger, Joshua Ekholm, Jared Koch, Gerald R. Johnson