ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,153, issued on April 14, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Guide link arm assembly and method for a work machine" was invented by Jeffrey L. Feuerhelm (Dubuque, Iowa), John S. Foltz (Dubuque, Iowa), Vinod Kumar Velayudhan (Pune, India), Vikas Patil (Pune, India), Anjul Sharma (Pune, India), Swapnil Ghodake (Pune, India), Richard Pugh (Dubuque, Iowa) and Thomas R. Vantiger (Peosta, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide link arm assembly for coupling a sensor to a boom of a work machine is disclosed. The guide link arm assembly comprises a single-piece elongated member with a first pivotal coupling on a first end and ...