US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial Canada on Dec. 2 for "Penetration depth control and gauge wheel contact force monitoring system for an agricultural row unit" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,472, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CNH Industrial Canada Ltd. (Saskatoon, Canada).

"Penetration depth control and gauge wheel contact force monitoring system for an agricultural row unit" was invented by Dennis George Thompson (Eagle Ridge, Canada) and Trevor Lawrence Kowalchuk (Saskatoon, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A penetration depth control and gauge wheel contact force monitoring system for a row unit includes a penetration depth actuator configured to drive a gauge wheel arm assembly to move a gauge wheel relative to a row unit frame to control a penetration depth of an opener of the row unit. The penetration depth...