US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on July 21 for "Systems and methods for monitoring disc conditions of agricultural implements using distance-based measurements" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,243, issued on July 21, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring disc conditions of agricultural implements using distance-based measurements" was invented by Brittany Schroeder (Lowell, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a system for monitoring disc conditions of an agricultural implement includes a disc configured to penetrate through a soil surface during the performance of an agricultural operation, and a distance sensor configured to generate data associated with a distance defined between the distance sensor and a portion of the disc. In addition, the sys...