US Patent Issued to AGCO International on July 15 for "System and method for automatic detection of dual wheels" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,011, issued on July 15, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for automatic detection of dual wheels" was invented by Paolo Turcato (Breganze, Italy), Filippo Carollo (Breganze, Italy) and Andrea Dal Soglio (Breganze, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance sensor is used for automatically detecting whether an outer wheel of a dual-wheel axle is present. The distance sensor is mounted to detect a distance between the sensor and an outer wheel of a dual-wheel axle. A controller compares the distance information with an expected range of distances if the outer wheel is present and ...