ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,040, issued on June 30, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.) and CNH Industrial Canada Ltd. (Saskatoon, Canada).
"System and method for detecting disk blade damage on an agricultural implement by analyzing image data captured by a rear facing camera and determining vegetation in a lane of a field in order to perform corrective action" was invented by Brittany Schroeder (Bunker Hill, Ind.), Christopher Barrick (Morton, Ill.) and James W. Henry (Saskatoon, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting disk blade damage on an agricultural implement includes a disk blade configured to rotate relati...