ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,053, issued on June 30, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Apparatus and method for adjusting an agricultural header based on a sensed crop load" was invented by Cale Boriack (Lititz, Pa.) and Seth Woodward (Akron, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header height control system for an agricultural vehicle includes an actuator for moving a header of the agricultural vehicle relative to a chassis of the vehicle, a sensor for detecting a crop pushing condition at the header, and a controller that receives signals from the sensor and is also operably connected to the actuator for activating the actuator. Wh...