US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Sept. 9 for "System and method for detecting disk gang plugging on a tillage implement" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,572, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for detecting disk gang plugging on 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 frame and a disk gang supported on the frame, with the disk gang having a disk gang shaft and a plurality of disks spaced apart from each other along the disk gang shaft. Furthermore, the tillage implement includes a load sensor configured to generate data indicative of a load being applied to the disk gang and a computing system communicatively coupled to the load se...