US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Oct. 14 for "Geofence system for limiting vehicle usage" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,908, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Geofence system for limiting vehicle usage" was invented by Bryan Nannet (Burr Ridge, Ill.) and Brian Hartman (Burr Ridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an operation of an agricultural vehicle comprising: receiving a geo-fencing plan for the agricultural vehicle, determining an allowed area for executing an agricultural action based on the geo-fencing plan, determining a current location of the agricultural vehicle, comparing the current location of the agricultural vehicle to one or more predetermined locations to d...