US Patent Issued to CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA on Feb. 3 for "Calibration of harvesting head having a ground force sensing system" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,865, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Calibration of harvesting head having a ground force sensing system" was invented by Cory Hunt (Millersville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamically operating a header float system of an agricultural vehicle having a header movably mounted to a frame by an actuator and a flotation adjustment system that relies on ground-contact force measurement. The method includes: determining an initial zero value load sensor output signal representative of an initial position of the header raised out of contact with the ground surface, calib...