US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Dec. 23 for "System and method for determining seed placement during a seed-planting operation" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,847, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for determining seed placement during a seed-planting operation" was invented by Michael Christopher Conboy (Chicago), Mario Rathmanner (Baden, Austria) and Michael Pregesbauer (Baden, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seed-planting implement includes a computing system configured to control a first radar sensor to scan a sub-surface detection zone of a field before a seed is deposited. Furthermore, the computing system is configured to receive a plurality of first radar data points. Additionally, the computing system is c...