ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,932, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Sensing array for grain tank" was invented by Cory Douglas Hunt (Millersville, Pa.), Jesse Baird (Lancaster, Pa.), Denver R. Yoder (Manheim, Pa.), Kenneth Seiders Jr. (Elizabethtown, Pa.) and Paul Deysher (Reinholds, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes (i) a grain tank for storing separated grain and having a bottom end and a top end, and (ii) a grain tank level sensor array for detecting a level of grain in the grain tank. The grain tank level sensor array includes a plurality of sensors, wherein the grain tank level sen...