US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for monitoring disc conditions of agricultural implements using soil density measurements" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,916, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring disc conditions of agricultural implements using soil density measurements" was invented by Brittany Schroeder (Lowell, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a system for monitoring disc conditions of an agricultural implement includes a disc configured to penetrate through a soil surface during the performance of an agricultural operation, and a soil density sensor configured to generate data associated with a post-operation soil density of soil positioned aft of the disc relative to a direction of tr...