US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on May 19 for "System and method for determining crop population within a field during a harvesting operation being performed by an agricultural harvester" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,738, issued on May 19, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"System and method for determining crop population within a field during a harvesting operation being performed by an agricultural harvester" was invented by Bryan Finley (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Tyler Romoser (Keota, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvester includes a feeder configured to convey harvested material from a harvesting implement to a threshing and separating assembly. Furthermore, the agricultural harvester includes an imaging device positioned within feeder, with the imaging device configured to generate image data d...