US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on July 14 for "System and method for detecting worn, damaged, or missing agricultural implement components using a UAV" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,445, issued on July 14, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for detecting worn, damaged, or missing agricultural implement components using a UAV" was invented by Michael R. Cozza (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting worn, damaged, or missing agricultural implement components includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to fly relative to an agricultural implement. The UAV includes a propulsion system configured to provide propulsive power to the UAV and a component status sensor mounted to the UAV and configured to generate data indicative of a status...