ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,544, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CNH Industrial Belgium N.V. (Belgium).
"Machine monitoring" was invented by Bart M.A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium), Dre W.J. Jongmans (Klundert, Netherlands), Lode A. Demonie (Staden, Belgium) and Marcel Verhoeven (Zedelgem, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile agricultural machine includes a sensor capable of sensing a gaseous composition of an air flow impinging the sensor; an air filtering unit configured to remove particulate matter from the air flow; and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a sensing signal from the sensor, wherein the sensing signal is represen...