US Patent Issued to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen on March 17 for "Capacitive parameter measurement in a self-propelled forage harvester" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,494, issued on March 17, was assigned to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (Harsewinkel, Germany).

"Capacitive parameter measurement in a self-propelled forage harvester" was invented by Christoph Lehmann (Belm, Germany), Dennis Neitemeier (Lippetal, Germany) and Christoph Heitmann (Warendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-propelled forage harvester and a method for controlling said forage harvester are disclosed. A measuring device of the forage harvester may have a plurality of electrodes spaced at a distance from each other. These electrodes may be arranged or positioned in an intermediate channel of a harv...