US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America, CNH Industrial Belgium on Sept. 29 for "Yield determination system for a vehicle" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,696, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.) and CNH Industrial Belgium N.V. (Zedelgem, Belgium).

"Yield determination system for a vehicle" was invented by Glenn M. Bird (Ephrata, Pa.), Jonathan Eaby (Lancaster, Pa.), Grant Garber (Strasburg, Pa.), Geert Mortier (Ghent, Belgium), Shawn O'Neal (Laurel, Del.) and Kevin M. Smith (Narvon, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a crop yield of a field harvested by a windrower includes receiving, from a header sensor, header data indicative of a load experienced by a header of the windrower, the header including a cutter confi...