US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on April 22 for "Target for grain tank level sensor integrated into the grain tank" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,555, issued on April 22, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Target for grain tank level sensor integrated into the grain tank" was invented by Justin Becker (Elizabethtown, Pa.), Mark D. Dilts (New Holland, Pa.), Michael Minnich (Elizabethtown, Pa.), Clayton E. Banks Jr. (Brownstown, Pa.) and Denver R. Yoder (Manheim, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a system for sensing harvested grain levels within an agricultural harvester. The system including a grain tank configured to receive harvested grain, a sensor configured to emit a sensor beam into the grain tank for reflection off of ...