US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Oct. 14 for "System and method for determining operational status of a tillage implement" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,841, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for determining operational status of a tillage implement" was invented by Scott Glovier (Lombard, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tillage implement includes a computing system configured to determine the total load being applied to a disk gang of the implement based on data generated by the one or more load sensors. Additionally, the computing system is configured to determine a normalized number of disks on the disk gang based on the surface area of each disk on the disk gang that is in contact with soil in a field across...