ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,287, issued on May 27, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.) and CNH Industrial Belgium N.V. (Zedelgem, Belgium).

"Agricultural system and method for monitoring feeder throughput of a harvester" was invented by Cory Douglas Hunt (Millersville, Pa.), Bart M. A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium), Lucas Deruyter (Gits, Belgium), Dre W. J. Jongmans (Klundert, Netherlands) and Bert Vandewalle (Torhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system for monitoring throughput of a feeder configured for use with a harvester performing a harvesting operation within a field may include a feeder housing and a fe...