US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Dec. 2 for "System and method for detecting disk gang plugging on a tillage implement" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,469, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for detecting disk gang plugging on a tillage implement" was invented by Scott Glovier (Lombard, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tillage implement includes a plurality of disk gangs, with each disk gang including a shaft and a plurality of disks spaced apart from each other along the shaft. Furthermore, the tillage implement includes a plurality of load sensors configured to generate data indicative of loads being applied to the plurality of disk gangs and a computing system communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors...