US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for controlling a boom assembly of an agricultural applicator" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,553, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a boom assembly of an agricultural applicator" was invented by Mario Rodrigues Maia (Piracicaba, Brazil), Roberto Honorio da Silva (Piracicaba, Brazil) and Paulo Jose de Andrade Alves (Piracicaba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boom assembly for an agricultural applicator includes a frame supporting a boom arm pivotably coupled to the frame and rotatable about a first axis. A first actuation assembly is pivotably coupled to the frame and the boom arm at a first pivot point for rotation about a second ...