ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,809, issued on April 21, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Agricultural system for sensing plant material" was invented by Kevin Smith (Narvon, Pa.), Stefaan Desmet (Drongen, Belgium), Andrew Harmon (Sheboygan, Wis.) and Jeffrey Fay II (Oxford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine system, includes: an agricultural machine; a control system operatively coupled with the agricultural machine, the control system including: a sensor configured for: sensing a cut stubble of a plant material; outputting a cut stubble signal corresponding to the cut stubble; a controller system operatively...