ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,968, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Position monitoring system for agricultural system" was invented by Sven Nathaniel Setterdahl (Maquon, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position monitoring system for an agricultural system includes a light emitter configured to output a light, a sensor array having a plurality of sensors configured to receive the light output by the light emitter, and a control system configured to determine at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors of the sensor array that receives the light output by the light emitter to indicate a current parameter ...