US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial Belgium, CNH Industrial Italia, CNH Industrial America on March 31 for "Crop container monitoring" (Italian, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,825, issued on March 31, was assigned to CNH Industrial Belgium N.V. (Zedelgem, Belgium), CNH Industrial Italia S.p.A. (Turin, Italy) and CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Crop container monitoring" was invented by Bart M. A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium), Luca Ferrari (Modena, Italy), Cory Hunt (Millersville, Pa.), Geert Mortier (Ghent, Belgium), Luca Di Cecilia (Turin, Italy) and Fabio Lisurici (Matera, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop container monitor for monitoring a fill-state of an open-top crop container during a harvesting operation, the crop container monitor comprising: at least one radiation sensor...