US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Feb. 3 for "System and method for determining row cleaner aggressiveness of a seed-planting implement" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,863, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for determining row cleaner aggressiveness of a seed-planting implement" was invented by Trevor Stanhope (Oak Lawn, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining row cleaner aggressiveness of a seed-planting implement includes a row cleaner assembly having a row cleaner arm and a row cleaner wheel rotatably coupled to the row cleaner arm. Furthermore, the system includes an optical flow sensor configured to generate data indicative the movement of soil particles within a field across which the seed-planting implement...