Patents by Inventor Walter Stachon
Walter Stachon 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).
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Patent number: 9468153Abstract: A system for evaluating the phytotoxicity and/or injury of plants is described. Plants are planted in row sections and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the row sections. The cart has a radiometric sensor assembly positioned above the row section. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the row sections and measures the existence of plants in the row section and the quantity of vegetation in the row section. Related methods area also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Karolyn A. Terpstra
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Publication number: 20150319934Abstract: A system for evaluating the phytotoxicity and/or injury of plants is described. Plants are planted in row sections and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the row sections. The cart has a radiometric sensor assembly positioned above the row section. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the row sections and measures the existence of plants in the row section and the quantity of vegetation in the row section. Related methods area also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Karolyn A. Terpstra
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Patent number: 9075698Abstract: A system for evaluating the phytotoxicity and/or injury of plants is described. Plants are planted in row sections and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the row sections. The cart has a radiometric sensor assembly positioned above the row section. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the row sections and measures the existence of plants in the row section and the quantity of vegetation in the row section.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Karolyn A. Terpstra
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Patent number: 8537360Abstract: A system for evaluating the susceptibility of a soybean plant to iron deficiency chlorosis is described. Soybean plants are planted in range and rows multiple micro-plots and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the micro-plots. The cart may have a sensor housing that is divided into multiple partitions with a radiometric sensor assembly positioned within each partition. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the range. The number of partitions corresponds to the number of rows in the range and each sensor assembly is positioned above a single row.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Ken Luebbert, John Gass
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Publication number: 20130067808Abstract: A system for evaluating the phytotoxicity and/or injury of plants is described. Plants are planted in row sections and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the row sections. The cart has a radiometric sensor assembly positioned above the row section. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the row sections and measures the existence of plants in the row section and the quantity of vegetation in the row section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Karolyn A. Terpstra
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Publication number: 20130019332Abstract: An automated relative maturity system for measuring the relative maturity of a large number of plots of diverse varieties of plants growing in a field or fields. A field to be evaluated is laid out in multiple plots with a specific variety assigned to a preselected plot or plots and with areas set aside throughout the field for planting of check varieties of known relative maturity. High-precision GPS is used with a planter to record the location of each plot within the field on a map. When leaf senescence is under way throughout the field, a radiometric crop sensor mounted on a vehicle also equipped with high-precision GPS is used to scan the plants in the plots to record readings of the plants synchronized to the GPS map locations, including the check plants of known relative maturity. Software is used to calculate the relative maturity of each variety.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Ken Luebbert, Keith Bilyeu, Joe Strottman, Ryan Larson
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Publication number: 20130008086Abstract: A system for evaluating the quality and/or vigor of plants is described. Plants are planted in row sections and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the row sections. The cart has a radiometric sensor assembly positioned above the row section. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the row sections and measures the existence of plants in the row section and the quantity of vegetation in the row section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Ken Luebbert, John Gass, Duane A. Grensteiner, Taylor Dowden
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Publication number: 20110047636Abstract: An automated relative maturity system for measuring the relative maturity of a large number of plots of diverse varieties of plants growing in a field or fields. A field to be evaluated is laid out in multiple plots with a specific variety assigned to a preselected plot or plots and with areas set aside throughout the field for planting of check varieties of known relative maturity. High-precision GPS is used with a planter to record the location of each plot within the field on a map. When leaf senescence is under way throughout the field, a radiometric crop sensor mounted on a vehicle also equipped with high-precision GPS is used to scan the plants in the plots to record readings of the plants synchronized to the GPS map locations, including the check plants of known relative maturity. Software is used to calculate the relative maturity of each variety.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Ken Luebbert, Keith Bilyeu, Joe Strottman, Ryan Larson
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Publication number: 20110041399Abstract: A system for evaluating the quality and/or vigor of plants is described. Plants are planted in row sections and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the row sections. The cart has a radiometric sensor assembly positioned above the row section. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the row sections and measures the existence of plants in the row section and the quantity of vegetation in the row section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Ken Luebbert, John Gass, Duane A. Grensteiner, Taylor Dowden
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Publication number: 20110043805Abstract: A system for evaluating the susceptibility of a soybean plant to iron deficiency chlorosis is described. Soybean plants are planted in range and rows multiple micro-plots and a cart is used to pass a radiometric sensor over the micro-plots. The cart may have a sensor housing that is divided into multiple partitions with a radiometric sensor assembly positioned within each partition. Each sensor assembly generates a data signal and a computer receives and stores the data signals. The field cart is positioned above the range. The number of partitions corresponds to the number of rows in the range and each sensor assembly is positioned above a single row.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Walter Stachon, Ken Luebbert, John Gass