US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial Belgium, CNH Industrial America on Sept. 8 for "Combine harvester with grain cart detection" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,533, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CNH Industrial Belgium N.V. (Zedelgem, Belgium) and CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Combine harvester with grain cart detection" was invented by Arno Leenknegt (Hooglede, Belgium), Thomas Mahieu (West-Vleteren, Belgium), Bart M. A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium), Nathan Isaac (Lancaster, Pa.), Michael Rush (Lancaster, Pa.) and Joseph Best (Leola, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester with a grain tank for storing harvested grain, an unload conveyor for unloading the harvested grain stored in the grain tank into a nearby grain hauling vehicle, a chopper for chopping...