US Patent Issued to CLAAS Tractor on Jan. 20 for "System and method to measure an absolute working height of a plurality of agricultural attachments" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,241, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CLAAS Tractor SAS (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).

"System and method to measure an absolute working height of a plurality of agricultural attachments" was invented by Jan Carsten Wieckhorst (Uelzen Ortsteil Hanstedt, Germany), Christian Birkmann (Versmold, Germany), Christian Schaub (Paderborn, Germany), Jona Pieper (Nordkirchen, Germany) and Lennart Meyer (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for measuring a working height, such as an absolute working height, of a plurality of agricultural attachments using a sensor assembly is disclosed. The sensor assembly includ...