US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Nov. 18 for "System and method for monitoring crop material thickness within an agricultural harvester" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,527, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for monitoring crop material thickness within an agricultural harvester" was invented by Eric L. Walker (Narvon, Pa.), Cory Douglas Hunt (Millersville, Pa.) and Bart Lenaerts (Zutendaal, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvester includes a frame and a crop cleaning assembly supported on the frame. The crop cleaning assembly, in turn, includes an oscillating component configured to oscillate relative to the frame in a manner that conveys crop material across the oscillating component. Furthermore, the agricu...