ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,803, issued on April 21, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"System for measuring threshing losses" was invented by Bart Lenaerts (Zutendaal, Belgium), Thomas Mahieu (Vleteren, Belgium) and Bart M.A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for determining a threshing loss in a threshing system. The method includes irradiating a crop sample downstream at least a portion of a threshing system with electromagnetic waves having a frequency in a range of 0.1-10 THz, measuring a reflection and/or a transmission of the electromagnetic waves by the crop sample, e...