US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial Belgium on July 7 for "Cut crop monitoring" (Canadian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,604, issued on July 7, was assigned to CNH Industrial Belgium N.V. (Belgium).

"Cut crop monitoring" was invented by Bart M.A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium) and Martin J. Roberge (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a cut-crop laying in a field or during a cutting process, the method includes: receiving a sensing signal from a cut-crop sensor positioned on a mobile agricultural machine, wherein the sensing signal is representative of a sensed gaseous composition associated with the cut-crop; estimating a condition of the cut-crop based on the sensing signal; and outputting cut-crop state data including th...