US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Dec. 30 for "Time of flight grain cart fill sensor with combined spout as scanning head" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,314, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Time of flight grain cart fill sensor with combined spout as scanning head" was invented by Scott Glovier (Lombard, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for sensing and analyzing filling of a grain cart while receiving grain from a combine. Time-of-flight sensors may be mounted on a grain spout (or nozzle) extending from the combine over the grain cart during operation. The sensors provide signals indicative of distances of surfaces of accumulating grain from the sensors, and these distances may be determined by on...