US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America, Kansas State University Research Foundation on Oct. 20 for "System and method for an agricultural applicator" (Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,539, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.) and Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.).

"System and method for an agricultural applicator" was invented by Rex Leroy Ruppert (Benson, Minn.), Brent David Bast (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Ajay Sharda (Manhattan, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system includes a nozzle assembly positioned along a boom assembly that is configured to selectively dispense an agricultural product therefrom. An airflow detection system is configured to capture data indicative of one or more airflow sources. A computing system is c...