US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on May 12 for "Agricultural system and method for determining a position of a gauge wheel of a row unit for a seed-planting implement" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,341, issued on May 12, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Agricultural system and method for determining a position of a gauge wheel of a row unit for a seed-planting implement" was invented by Trevor Stanhope (Oak Lawn, Ill.) and Michael Christopher Conboy (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row unit for a seed-planting implement includes a frame and a disk opener supported relative to the frame and configured to form a furrow within a field. The row unit further includes a gauge wheel arm supported relative to the frame, and a gauge wheel coupled to the gauge wheel arm. Additionally, the row unit i...