US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on March 17 for "System for eliminating delayed hitch response due to air ingress within agricultural machinery" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,470, issued on March 17, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (Holland, Pa.).

"System for eliminating delayed hitch response due to air ingress within agricultural machinery" was invented by Matthew Roy Klopfenstein (Chenoa, Ill.), Jerry Lee Brinkley (Woodridge, Ill.) and Joshua Guarino (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic system for a three-point hitch includes at least one hitch cylinder and a first flow path. The hydraulic system includes a hitch valve fluidly coupled to the at least one hitch cylinder via the first flow path, wherein the hitch valve is configured to control a flow of hydraulic fluid...