Patents by Inventor Duane BERNHARDSON

Duane BERNHARDSON 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: 20240053720
    Abstract: A system analyzes crops provided by a truck on a transport device. The truck enters the transport device to transport and unload the crops. The system includes sensors to detect an identifier of the truck, detect a temperature of the crops, and determine components of the crops. A programmable-logic controller sends paired information between the detected identifier of the truck and the detected location of the crops to a non-transitory storage medium for storage. The processor also sends the detected temperature of the crops and the determined components of the crops to the non-transitory storage medium for storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Duane BERNHARDSON
  • Publication number: 20230115652
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for crumbling root crops into substantially equal sized pieces and homogenizing the flow of crumbled pieces for analysis. The device can have a crumbling device with a main frame and at least one crumbling shaft rotatably supported in the main frame. The crumbling shaft can have a plurality of curved hooks for interlaced movement with recesses in at least one non-rotating cutting rake and at least one cleaning rake. A transport device can move the stream of crumbled root crops from the crumbling device where the stream can be leveled with a leveling rake and compressed into a substantially flat and uniform flow with a roller. The roller can have one or more scrapers positioned to clean the roller surface of residual root crop product and distribute the cleaned material in locations away from the stream to be analyzed to avoid contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Duane BERNHARDSON, Elke HILSCHER, Frank FRIEDHOFF