Patents Issued in September 17, 2024
  • Patent number: PP36124
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘Cloud Busters’, characterized by its relatively compact and upright plant habit; moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit; strong flowering stems; strong leaves; freely flowering habit with typically four inflorescences developing per plant, each inflorescence with numerous flowers; flowers with white-colored petals and sepals; flowers with white and yellow-colored labella; and good postproduction longevity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FLORICULTURA B.V.
    Inventor: Rene Schoone
  • Patent number: PP36125
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named ‘Dongipetresta’ characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and full appearance; dark red-colored leaves; freely and early flowering habit; medium to large-sized single-type white to light pink and red bicolored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DUNNEB GROUP B.V.
    Inventor: Ruth Kobayashi
  • Patent number: PP36126
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named ‘Dongirolcoa’ characterized by its relatively compact, upright to outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and full appearance; dark green-colored leaves; freely and early flowering habit; medium to large-sized ruffled intense purplish red-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DUMMEN GROUP B.V.
    Inventor: Ruth Kobayashi
  • Patent number: PP36127
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Begonia plant named ‘Summer Storm’ is disclosed, characterized by large, colorful, distinctively patterned leaves having a dark green background and distinct light yellow-green splotches. Plants are tolerant of heat and humidity and observed winter hardy to zone 7b without protection. Plant is robust, vigorous, easy to grow and easy to propagate, observed resistant to typical diseases and pests and not attractive to deer. The new cultivar is a Begonia, typically suited for garden and ornamental container use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: John Boggan
  • Patent number: PP36128
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Schefflera plant named ‘Mukivy’, characterized by its upright and outwardly branching plant habit; relatively vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; variegated leaves that are dark green and pale yellow in color; and good interiorscape performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Parthasarathy Mukundan
  • Patent number: PP36129
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balchaelink’, characterized by its deep reddish-purple and white colored flowers having a bright yellow base and throat opening, medium green-colored foliage, and vigorous, mounded-trailing growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY
    Inventor: Laura L. Masor
  • Patent number: PP36130
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Helleborus plant named ‘HL 1014’ characterized by its upright to somewhat outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit; dark green-colored leaflets with lighter green-colored venation; freely flowering habit; light yellowish green-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Josef Heuger
  • Patent number: RE50126
    Abstract: A device (340, 440, 540) is connected to an output terminal of a controller(330), having a single input terminal connected to a first power terminal of an external power source (305) which outputs an AC voltage between the first power terminal and a second power terminal. The device includes a bleeding circuit(342, 442, 542), and a switching arrangement (344/346, 444/446, 544/546) to detect whether the controller powers a load (320 or disables the load. When the controller is in an OFF state, the switching arrangement connects the bleeding circuit between the output terminal of the controller and the second power terminal to provide a current path between the output terminal of the controller and the second power terminal. When the controller is in an ON state, the switching arrangement disconnects the bleeding circuit between the output terminal of the controller and the second power terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Shangwu Chen
  • Patent number: RE50127
    Abstract: An operator ride enhancement system that is coupleable to the frame of a vehicle includes a counterweight platform moveably coupled to the frame, and a resilient member engaged with the frame and the counterweight platform. The mass of the counterweight platform is configured to be approximately at least equal to a total mass supported by the counterweight platform during operation of the vehicle. The operator ride enhancement system attenuates and/or inhibits movement of the counterweight platform during operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: The Raymond Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Thomas Yahner
  • Patent number: RE50128
    Abstract: A system for the production of ammonium sulfate granules including a pipe cross reactor (PCR) configured to contact concentrated sulfuric acid with anhydrous ammonia to produce a PCR product comprising ammonium sulfate; and a granulator fluidly connected to the PCR, whereby PCR product extracted from the PCR can be introduced into the granulator, an inlet for ammonium sulfate seed material, an ammonia sparger configured to spray liquid anhydrous ammonia onto a bed of ammonium sulfate granules within the granulator, and a granulator product outlet configured for extraction of granulator product comprising ammonium sulfate granules from the granulator. A method of producing ammonium sulfate granules is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PCI Nitrogen, LLC
    Inventors: Praveen Jain, Santiago Gomez, Mark D. Ibsen
  • Patent number: RE50129
    Abstract: A storage device including: a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells, a partial storage area and an overprovision storage area; and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory device, wherein when the controller detects a fault of the nonvolatile memory device, the controller negates the partial storage area, reassigns the overprovision storage area, which corresponds to a size of a user area, among the partial storage area, determines a device fail if the overprovision storage area is less than an overprovision threshold after the reassigning of the partial storage area, and determines a recovery success if the overprovision storage area is equal to or greater than the overprovision threshold after the reassigning of the partial storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hyung Park, HyunJung Shin, Isaac Baek, Jeonguk Kang, Minseok Ko
  • Patent number: RE50130
    Abstract: A computing system includes: an adaptive back-up controller configured to calculate an adaptive back-up time based on a reserve power source for backing up a volatile memory to a nonvolatile memory; and a processor core, coupled to the adaptive back-up controller, configured to back up at least a portion of the volatile memory to the nonvolatile memory within the adaptive back-up time based on a back-up priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongzhong Zheng, Keith Chan, Wonseok Lee, Tackhwi Lee
  • Patent number: RE50131
    Abstract: A three-dimensional billboard display system features a flexible sheet of banner material having displayed content on a display side thereof, and a two-dimensional footprint area on the display side that is discretely identifiable from the displayed content. A flexible cover fastened to the flexible sheet in a position overlying the two-dimensional footprint area on the display side and enclosing a three-dimensional space between said cover and said flexible sheet. One or more inserts form a three-dimensional body of predetermined shape inside the three-dimensional space, the flexible cover spanning in taut condition over the three-dimensional body, thereby imparting the predetermined shape to the three-dimensional space and imparting the flexible cover with a three-dimensional form bulging outwardly from the display side of the flexible sheet. A reinforcement layer features a mesh or netting of criss-crossing webbing straps on a backside of the flexible sheet to carry the weight of the 3D embellishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Edward Francis Carolan
  • Patent number: RE50132
    Abstract: An embodiment of an apparatus for generating audio subband values in audio subband channels includes an analysis windower for windowing a frame of time-domain audio input samples being in a time sequence extending from an early sample to a later sample using an analysis window function including a sequence of window coefficients to obtain windowed samples. The analysis window function includes a first number of window coefficients derived from a larger window function including a sequence of a larger second number of window coefficients, wherein the window coefficients of the window function are derived by an interpolation of window coefficients of the larger window function. The apparatus further includes a calculator for calculating the audio subband values using the windowed samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Markus Schnell, Manfred Lutzky, Markus Lohwasser, Markus Schmidt, Marc Gayer, Michael Mellar, Bernd Edler, Markus Multrus, Gerald Schuller, Ralf Geiger, Bernhard Grill
  • Patent number: RE50133
    Abstract: A resistive memory device includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of reference cells, a plurality of first resistive memory cells, a plurality of second resistive memory cells maintained in an off state, a read circuit configured to provide a first read current to the first resistive memory cells and provide a second read current to the reference cells while one of the first resistive memory cells is selected to perform a read operation, and a compensation circuit configured to provide a compensation current based on a first leakage current from the off resistive memory cells to the reference cells to compensate for a second leakage current generated by the unselected first resistive memory cells. Each reference cell is connected to one of the word lines and each of the first resistive memory cells are connected to one of the word lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Artur Antonyan
  • Patent number: RE50134
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device that enable prevention of generation of tape scraps from the dicing tape during dicing, and an electronic apparatus. When a semiconductor substrate on which a protective film for protecting a circuit surface is formed is divided, dicing is performed so as to form a portion in which the section width of the semiconductor substrate differs from the section width of the protective film. The present technology can be applied to a wafer level CSP manufacturing process and the like, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shogo Ono
  • Patent number: RE50135
    Abstract: In one embodiment, packets are forwarded in a network based on multiple compact forwarding identifiers represented in a single 128-bit Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) address, such as, but not limited to being in the destination address field of the IPv6 header (e.g., possibly in an extended IPv6 header). One embodiment follows the forwarding order of these multiple compact forwarding identifiers by respectively placing them in the single IPv6 address from high-order to lower-order bit positions. In one embodiment, a compact forwarding identifier prefix is part of the address represented by each compact forwarding identifier, typically with the compact forwarding identifier prefix stored in the highest-order bit positions. One embodiment uses a longest prefix matching operation to match the compact forwarding identifier to be used in determining how to next process the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Refaat Bashandy, Clarence Filsfils
  • Patent number: RE50136
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable media are provided for distributing data with multi-tiered encoding. For example, a system for transmission of data streams to endpoints is provided that includes: encoders, each encoder configured to encode a data stream according to at least one encoding parameter; virtual transmitters organized into groups based on at least one transmission characteristic; each group of virtual transmitters configured to receive encoded data from an associated one of the encoders; each virtual transmitter of the plurality of virtual transmitters configured to transmit the encoded data to an associated one of the plurality of endpoints; and at least one controller configured to monitor transmission characteristics of the plurality of virtual transmitters and to adjust membership of the virtual transmitters in the plurality of groups based on the monitored transmission characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DEJERO LABS INC.
    Inventors: David Sze, Cameron Kenneth Smith, Todd Schneider, Bogdan Frusina
  • Patent number: RE50137
    Abstract: A vertical memory device includes a channel, a dummy channel, a plurality of gate electrodes, and a support pattern. The channel extends in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate. The dummy channel extends from the upper surface of the substrate in the first direction. The plurality of gate electrodes are formed at a plurality of levels, respectively, spaced apart from each other in the first direction on the substrate. Each of the gate electrodes surrounds outer sidewalls of the channel and the dummy channel. The support pattern is between the upper surface of the substrate and a first gate electrode among the gate electrodes. The first gate electrode is at a lowermost one of the levels. The channel and the dummy channel contact each other between the upper surface of the substrate and the first gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-Gn Yun, Zhiliang Xia, Ahn-Sik Moon, Se-Jun Park, Joon-Sung Lim, Sung-Min Hwang
  • Patent number: 12089514
    Abstract: A grapevine soil-cleaning device and engineering machinery installed with the soil-cleaning device, comprising an air blower (4), an air vent direction reversal device, a soil-retaining device, an angular sensor (7) and a controller (19). The controller (19) is connected to the air blower (4), the angular sensor (7), the air vent direction reversal device and the soil-retaining device respectively. The present device achieves non-contact soil cleaning by blowing air, and has the advantages of no harmful impact on buds and branches, one-time cleaning, and highly efficient soil cleaning. The air vent direction reversal device may achieve a consistent air-blowing direction when the grapevine soil-cleaning device moves among rows of the grapevine. The soil-retaining device may hold back the blown soil and reduce the displacement distance of the blown soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qizhi Yang, Guangyu Du, Aiping Shi, Jing Zhang, Guanlong Huang
  • Patent number: 12089515
    Abstract: A monitoring system for an agricultural implement includes a sensor configured to output a sensor signal indicative of a position of at least one scraper of the agricultural implement relative to a surface of at least one respective disc. The at least one scraper is configured to engage the surface of the at least one respective disc to remove accumulated soil from the surface of the at least one respective disc. The monitoring system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The controller is configured to determine an amount of wear on the at least one scraper based on the position of the at least one scraper relative to the surface of the at least one respective disc, and the controller is configured to output a wear signal indicative of the amount of wear on the at least one scraper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Austin Joseph McLuckie, Grant Thomas Macdonald, Johnathon Raymond Dienst, Brian John Anderson
  • Patent number: 12089516
    Abstract: An agricultural implement includes a transversely extending frame forming a first, a second, and a third frame section. A first actuator is coupled to the first frame section, a second actuator coupled to the second frame section, and a third actuator coupled to the third frame section. Sensors are coupled to each frame section to detect a height of the respective frame section relative to an underlying surface. A control unit is disposed in electrical communication with the sensors and operably controls the actuators to adjust the height of each frame section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Adam D. Sporrer, Anthony Sikora, Ricky B. Theilen
  • Patent number: 12089517
    Abstract: A removably installable apparatus and system for managing weight transfer along a tractor drawn tool bar for use in row planting systems is provided. The planter weight transfer system comprises first and second bolt-on bracket assemblies, each bolt-on bracket assembly comprising a primary plate and a secondary plate secured to each other and to a row planter tool bar by a set of fasteners. Additionally, the bolt-on brackets are joined at the top by an actuator which applies a force on the brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Ronald Steve Martin
  • Patent number: 12089518
    Abstract: A system for controlling the depth of at least one closing wheel in an agricultural row unit for planting seeds in a furrow. The row unit includes a firming device that passes the seeds into the soil at the bottom of the furrow, and at least one closing wheel that is pressed into a side of the furrow to close the furrow over the seeds. A control system senses the depth of the closing wheels in the furrow relative to the depth of the firming device, and adjusts the downward pressure on the closing wheel, based on changes in the sensed depth of the closing wheel, to compensate for changes in the hardness of the soil. The up and down movement of the firming device can be adjusted independently of the movement of the closing wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DAWN EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph D. Bassett
  • Patent number: 12089519
    Abstract: An agricultural implement includes a frame and a ground-engaging tool supported on the frame, with the ground-engaging tool configured to perform an operation on a field as the agricultural implement travels across the field. The agricultural implement includes an imaging device configured to generate image data depicting a portion of the field and a computing system communicatively coupled to the imaging device. In this respect, the computing system is configured to identify a plurality of residue pieces present within the portion of the field based on the image data generated by the imaging device. Furthermore, the computing system is configured to determine a residue length parameter associated with the identified plurality of residue pieces. Additionally, the computing system is configured to control a travel direction of the agricultural implement based on the determined residue length parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Brittany Schroeder
  • Patent number: 12089520
    Abstract: A method for treating expansive soils includes excavating a hole in a superficial expansive soil layer from an excavation site to form the hole and form an expansive soil material. Further, the expansive soil material is mixed with an inert material, at least two chemical additives, and a binder to form an additive soil material. The additive soil material is further poured into the hole in the excavation site to form an additive soil layer. The inert material is a sand, the chemical additives are a sulfur and a silica fume, and the binder is a dicyclopentadiene. The sand and the sulfur are present in the additive soil material in an amount from 30 wt. % to 40 wt. % and 12 wt. % to 25 wt. %, respectively, based on a total weight of the additive soil material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
    Inventor: Tahar Ayadat
  • Patent number: 12089521
    Abstract: A method for treating expansive soils includes excavating a hole in a superficial expansive soil layer from an excavation site to form the hole and form an expansive soil material. Further, the expansive soil material is mixed with an inert material, at least two chemical additives, and a binder to form an additive soil material. The additive soil material is further poured into the hole in the excavation site to form an additive soil layer. The inert material is a sand, the chemical additives are a sulfur and a silica fume, and the binder is a dicyclopentadiene. The sand and the sulfur are present in the additive soil material in an amount from 30 wt. % to 40 wt. % and 12 wt. % to 25 wt. %, respectively, based on a total weight of the additive soil material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
    Inventor: Tahar Ayadat
  • Patent number: 12089522
    Abstract: A seedling-package forming system includes a first conveyor including a first track and a first sheet arranged on the first track. A second conveyor is located at a downstream position and includes a second track and a second sheet arranged to lie on the second track. The second track is configured to transport the second sheet toward the first sheet. The first sheet and the second sheet are packed around a plurality of seedlings to form a seedling package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Plow Horse Pulling, Inc.
    Inventor: Justin Penick
  • Patent number: 12089523
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of machines and agricultural implements, more concretely agricultural implements for the mixture and/or distribution of a solid product having variable granulometry, such as, for example, silage, crumbs, clusters, in powder, among others, such as feedstuff and mineral supplements. Moreover, the present invention brings as main advantage, relative to the implements known to the state of the art, the fact that it has a torque limiting means over the movable parts, such as helical pitch threads, augers and/or beater arms, so that there is no overload in the hydraulic system of the implement that is operatively associated to the tractor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Celso Luís Casale
  • Patent number: 12089524
    Abstract: Methods for increasing the fertility of a soil at a soil location include assessing a parameter of the soil, aerobically culturing a feedstock based on the assessment, generating a soil fertility composition from the cultured feedstock, and applying the soil fertility composition. The assessing can include measuring a biological parameter of the soil, a non-biological parameter of the soil, or a combination thereof. The culturing step includes thermally composting a feedstock, cooling the feedstock, and adding worms, and continuing to culture the feedstock. The methods can include inoculating the feedstock in order to enhance the quality of the final product, which will increase the fertility of the soil. Systems for performing the methods can include two or more subunits such that a cultured feedstock in one subunit can inoculate a fresh feedstock in another subunit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Terraforma International Inc.
    Inventors: Cooper A. Scarbrough, Miles G. Sorel
  • Patent number: 12089525
    Abstract: An apparatus for making holes in plastic along a ridge row has a frame with wheels spanning a ridge row, a furrow reference wheel centered in the frame adapted to roll on soil surface between two raised ridge rows, a first vertically translatable mechanism positioned at a distance to a first side of the furrow reference wheel to be directly over the ridge row adjacent the furrow reference wheel, the vertically translatable mechanism having a first electrically-heated hole punch element at a lower extremity, and a control system having a power supply, sensors and actuators for managing operation of the apparatus. As the apparatus is towed, the furrow reference wheel triggers signals to the control system to activate the vertically translatable mechanism at repeated intervals to descend and make holes in the plastic covering on the raised ridge row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Anthony Sandoval, Hector Camacho
  • Patent number: 12089526
    Abstract: A meter assembly for an agricultural machine includes a meter, a conduit, and a bypass. The meter includes a roller to move commodity to the conduit. The bypass is coupled to the conduit and the meter to facilitate air flow therebetween free of interference from the roller or the commodity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Randall A. Maro
  • Patent number: 12089527
    Abstract: Systems, implements, and methods for seed orientation during planting operations of agricultural plants include a system for seed orientation having a vision system positioned in proximity to a seed disk. The vision system determines seed orientation data for seed on the seed disk. A seed belt receives seed from the seed disk and the seed belt adjusts an orientation of the seed from the seed disk to a desired seed orientation within a furrow during planting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventors: Dale M Koch, Jeremy J Hodel, Todd Swanson, Ian Radtke
  • Patent number: 12089528
    Abstract: A product flow splitter is used to distribute agricultural product from a distribution line to a primary hopper and a secondary hopper. The splitter has an inlet segment, a primary outlet segment, and a secondary outlet segment. The inlet segment receives the agricultural product from the distribution line, the primary outlet segment outputs the agricultural product to the primary hopper, and the secondary outlet segment outputs the agricultural product to the secondary hopper. The primary outlet segment is aligned with the inlet segment along a common axis and the secondary outlet segment is curved to avoid plugging of the agricultural product in the product flow splitter. The primary outlet segment is positioned relative to the primary hopper so that an outlet of the primary outlet segment in the primary hopper is offset from an outlet of the primary hopper to a meter system to solve an overfilled situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Chad Michael Johnson, Grant Thomas MacDonald
  • Patent number: 12089529
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes one or more actuators configured to move a crop unloading tube of the harvester relative to a frame of the harvester. Additionally, the agricultural harvester includes a sensor configured to capture data indicative of a presence of the crop receiving vehicle within a crop unloading zone of the agricultural harvester. Moreover, the agricultural harvester includes a computing system communicatively coupled to the sensor. As such, the computing system configured to determine when the crop receiving vehicle is present within the crop unloading zone based on the data captured by the sensor. In addition, when it is determined that the crop receiving vehicle is present within crop unloading zone, the computing system is configured to control an operation of the one or more actuators such that the crop unloading tube is moved relative to the frame from a current position to a predetermined crop unloading position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Michael Patrick Rush
  • Patent number: 12089530
    Abstract: A walking power control system for wolfberry picking, including a frame, a turntable, rotating rods, first gears, second gear, gear racks, supporting rods, hydraulic motors, a front traveling wheel, a left traveling wheel and a right traveling wheel. Hydraulic motors rotate to drives three traveling wheels to rotate, thereby driving the frame to move, when it is necessary to turn, a turntable is rotated, the turntable rotates to drive two first gears to rotate, and the two first gears rotate to drive the supporting rods to rotate, thereby driving the left traveling wheel and the right traveling wheel to rotate, so that the traveling direction of the frame is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: Ningxia Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Wolfberry Scientific Institute, Ningxia Academy of Agriculture and forestry Sciences, Ningxia Keqi Modern Agricultural Machinery Technology Service Co. LTD
    Inventors: Zhigang Shi, Ru Wan, Tinghui Ma, Guoli Dai, Libin Yang, Xiao Wang, Youlong Cao, Wei An, Xiyan Zhang, Yunxiang Li, Xueqin Jiang, Ken Qin, Jianhua Zhao, Xiuying Wang, Jian Zhang, Feng Wei, Xinlin Sha, Lina Zhou, Jie Lu, Danqing Zhao
  • Patent number: 12089531
    Abstract: A system including a picking apparatus including at least two grippers. Each of the at least two grippers is configured to pick a respective individual crop of crops of a plant. The system is configured to move the at least two grippers of the picking apparatus in a rotational path. The system is configured to stop rotation of the picking apparatus when a first gripper of the at least two grippers is moved to a picking position along the rotational path. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HARVEST CROO, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Pitzer
  • Patent number: 12089532
    Abstract: A reel for use in an agricultural header has an axis of rotation and comprises a bat and a finger. The bat is mounted to rotate around the axis of rotation to gather crop, and has a non-circular cross-sectional profile. The finger is mounted to the bat to rotate with the bat around the axis of rotation to gather crop. The finger comprises a tine and a clamshell mount to which the tine is coupled and that surrounds the bat to mount the finger to the bat against rotation about the bat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Michael W. Mossman
  • Patent number: 12089533
    Abstract: Harvesting apparatus, with a supporting frame (12) having a longitudinal member and crossmembers, pickup members (20) and transverse conveyor devices (21), wherein a respective pickup member and transverse conveyor device are arranged on a first and second side of the longitudinal member (13), wherein a first shiftable crossmember (14) is shiftable about an axis (24) and is furthermore shiftable via the second crossmember about an axis (25) extending in the longitudinal direction relative to a fixed crossmember (16), and wherein a first overload protection device (26) is positioned between the first and second shiftable crossmembers (14, 15), said overload protection device triggering when a force on the respective pickup member (20) and/or the respective transverse conveyor device (21) and/or the respective first crossmember (14) exceeds a limit value and permitting shifting of the respective pickup member (20) and of the respective transverse conveyor device (21) rearwards about the axis (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CLAAS Saulgau GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Boll
  • Patent number: 12089534
    Abstract: A grain cart and foldable auger assembly having an upper auger assembly portion with a discharge portion, a lower auger assembly portion with an intake portion, and a joint that allows the upper auger assembly portion to be moved between operating and transport positions. When in an operating position, the upper auger portion and the lower auger portion are offset from each other by an operating offset angle. The grain cart also has a hitch for allowing the grain cart to be towed. The discharge portion is forward of the hitch when in the operating position. Embodiments of the present invention provide, for example, increased forward and side reach, additional storage capacity of the hopper, increased discharge rate from the hopper, and a more compact transport position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: UNVERFERTH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Michael D. Van Mill, Ronald J. Schlimgen
  • Patent number: 12089535
    Abstract: A threshing and separating system for an agricultural harvester includes a rotor configured to rotate about a rotor axis, a rotor cage at least partially enclosing the rotor and including a tailings return inlet formed therein and configured to couple to a tailings return elevator and an insert opening formed therein that is at least partially circumferentially aligned with the tailings return inlet relative to the rotor axis, at least one concave coupled to the rotor cage and defining a plurality of concave perforations, and a threshing insert removably coupled to the rotor cage and including at least one mounting opening. The threshing insert at least partially covers the insert opening and is positioned such that material from the tailings return inlet travels past the threshing insert before reaching the concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Francisco Mezzomo, Michael J. Matway, Travis Ohms, Craig E. Murray
  • Patent number: 12089536
    Abstract: A feeding assembly for an agricultural vehicle includes: a pickup including a pickup reel carrying a plurality of tines; a rotor including a plurality of rotor fins disposed rearwardly from the pickup; a windguard assembly including a pair of movable support arms and a windguard coupled to the support arms, the windguard including a tube and a plurality of windguard tines coupled to the tube, the windguard being movable from a first position to a second position that is elevated relative to the first position; and a windguard retainer configured to engage the windguard when the windguard is in the second position and retain the windguard in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Albert Childs
  • Patent number: 12089537
    Abstract: A sweep system is presented for a grain bin. The sweep system includes an elongated body extending a length between an inward end and an outward end and having a leading side and a trailing side. The elongated body is connected to a pivot point at the center of the grain bin and is configured to rotate around the pivot point. In one or more embodiments, a tail section of the sweep system is located as the outward end of the elongated body. In one or more arrangements, a track-driven drive system is positioned in the tail section. The track-driven drive system has a continuous track formed by a continuous chain and a plurality of paddles connected thereto. The track-driven drive system is configured to move the outward end of the elongated housing around the grain bin thereby facilitating emptying of grain from the grain bin by the sweep system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SUKUP MANUFACTURING CO.
    Inventor: Ryan Thomas Olson
  • Patent number: 12089538
    Abstract: The vibratory attachment for a grain auger is a system and method to aid in the removal of grain from a silo via an auger. In addition to the housing that contains the auger at the bottom of a bin, a specialized angled metal plate is welded to the housing at the interior end. A pneumatic turbine vibrator is then mounted to this plate. When the vibrator is powered by a compressed air source, the vibrations travel down the length of the auger housing which is in contact with the compacted grain. The vibrations then break down any “bridging” that occurs in the grain around the auger, thus allowing the grain to fall freely and be removed by the auger in a normal manner. It is envisioned that operation of the vibrator would occur manually when needed or be triggered on a recurring basis by a timing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Ryan Vidrine
  • Patent number: 12089539
    Abstract: An accessory configured to be connected to a self-propelled landscaping device. The accessory includes a frame that is releasably connectable to the device. The accessory includes a hopper supported on the frame and configured to hold bulk material in an interior area thereof. The hopper includes an upper opening for receiving bulk material and a lower opening for discharging the material. A conveyor extends below the hopper. The conveyor is selectively operative to move bulk material discharged from the lower opening in a first direction toward a conveyor first end or in a second direction toward a conveyor second end. A spreader is configured to engage and propel bulk material that is discharged at the conveyor first end. A conveyor extension is movably mounted on the frame and that includes an outward end that is selectively positionable outward in the second direction. Material delivered from the conveyor second end is movable on the conveyor extension and discharged at the outward end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Michael B. Amass
  • Patent number: 12089540
    Abstract: Implementations of a backpack blower converter attachment are provided. In some implementations, the backpack blower converter attachment comprises a converter tube and may further comprise one or more tube couplings, securing straps, and/or a replacement tube elbow. In some implementations, a method of using the backpack blower converter attachment comprises disconnecting the blower tube from the blower tube elbow of a backpack blower and connecting the converter tube to the blower tube elbow and the blower tube of the backpack blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Justin Misenheimer
  • Patent number: 12089541
    Abstract: A cultivation method for drip irrigation of cotton fields in saline-alkali soil is provided, belonging to the field of agricultural planting technologies. It mainly includes performing land preparation; setting a planting mode; laying tubes; performing a high frequency drip irrigation; fertilizing with water; performing intertillage; performing chemical control; and performing green prevention and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: Cotton Research Institute, Xinjiang Academy Agricultural and Reclamation Science, Water Conservancy and Construction Institute, Xinjiang Shihezi Vocational College, Institute of Agricultural Science and Tech. of Third Div., Xinjiang Product. and Construction Corps
    Inventors: Bing Chen, Yu Yu, Zongming Xie, Jing Wang, Xianhui Kong, Hai Lin, Qiong Wang, Gang Wang, Xin Wang, Taijie Liu, Jianqiang Cui, Donghai Zhang, Xiaofeng Peng, Fangyong Wang, Huanyong Han, Jihai Fu
  • Patent number: 12089542
    Abstract: A subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) pipe including a polymer water conduit with drippers spaced along a length of its wall and one or more essential oils (EO) adsorbed to a nanoclay (NC)/polymer structure so that EO is delivered to soil surrounding the SDI pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Metzerplas Cooperative Agricultural Org. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ana Dotan, Tal Balboul, Amos Ophir
  • Patent number: 12089543
    Abstract: The system (100) comprises a modular agricultural irrigation pivot-like device (101) positioned on an agricultural field (200) in the cultivation of a crop (202a), the device (101) comprising artificial lighting sources (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) arranged along the irrigation pivot device (101) at a predetermined distance above the aerial parts of the crop, comprising LEDs, and a plurality of energy sources that feed a plurality of artificial lighting sources, a processor in communication with a dimerizer and/or polarizer of artificial lighting sources and with power sources, wherein a processor a) adjusts (501), in the intervals of the electromagnetic spectrum, the balance between the spectral bands emitted by the light-emitting diodes; and b) determines and implements—an irrigation routine (502); and/or—light(s) supplementation routine (503); in which stages a) and b) are determined by a processor different parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FIENILE AGRONEGÓCIOS LTDA
    Inventor: Gustavo Alexandre Grossi
  • Patent number: 12089544
    Abstract: A hyperponic growing apparatus includes a growing chamber for supporting the growth of a plant positioned within the growing chamber. A cooling duct is attached to the growing chamber and the cooling duct is comprised of a translucent material to pass light through the cooling duct. The cooling duct is fluidly coupled to an air conditioning unit to facilitate moisture within the growing chamber to condense on the cooling duct. A growing light is suspended from the growing chamber to emit light through the cooling duct to facilitate the plant to be exposed to the light emitted by the growing light. An irrigation unit is in fluid communication with the cooling duct to collect the condensed moisture from the cooling duct. Furthermore, the irrigation unit has an outlet integrated into a pot in which the plant is growing to direct the condensed moisture into the pot for irrigating the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Jared Deane