ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,184, issued on June 2, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Agricultural system for bale appearance assessment" was invented by Jason L. Shonk (Lancaster, Pa.), Terry S. Moyer (Denver, Pa.) and Nathan R. Drzal (Narvon, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system includes: a frame; a control system operatively coupled with the frame, the control system including: at least one sensor configured for: detecting remotely at least one operative condition of a bale of a crop material after the bale has been ejected from a bale chamber of a baler; outputting at least one operative condition signal corr...