US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on July 7 for "Agricultural baler with flake prediction for bale length control" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,654, issued on July 7, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Agricultural baler with flake prediction for bale length control" was invented by Charles B. Peterson (West Grove, Pa.), Rory G. Chisholm (Denver, Pa.), Derek J. Friesen (Crystal City, Canada) and Sean D. Chevalier (Clearwater, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural baler includes a main bale chamber in which crop material is compressed into bales. The main bale chamber includes an inlet for receiving a wad of crop material from a pre-compression chamber of the agricultural baler, and an outlet for discharge of compressed crop materia...