US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on March 3 for "System and method for controlling row cleaner operation on a seed-planting implement" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,120, issued on March 3, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for controlling row cleaner operation on a seed-planting implement" was invented by Chad M. Johnson (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Trevor Stanhope (Oak Lawn, Ill.) and Michael Christopher Conboy (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seed-planting implement includes a fluid-driven actuator coupled between a row unit frame and a row cleaner arm such that the actuator is configured to adjust a force being applied to the arm. The actuator, in turn, includes a cylinder and a piston moveable relative to the cylinder, with the cylinder ...