US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on May 19 for "Broken paddle detection system for elevator of combine harvester" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,737, issued on May 19, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Broken paddle detection system for elevator of combine harvester" was invented by Karl Linde (Leola, Pa.), Shaun O'Donnell (Quarryville, Pa.) and Clayton Banks Jr. (Brownstown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting a broken or missing grain paddle of an elevator of a combine harvester includes a sensor positioned to either directly or indirectly detect a presence of grain paddles of the elevator, and output signals based thereon. The system also includes a controller that is configured to receive the signals output from the senso...