US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Aug. 25 for "Work vehicle with interchangeable power take offs" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,285, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Work vehicle with interchangeable power take offs" was invented by John J. Gallen (Waterloo, Iowa), Mark J. Tieszen (Holland, Iowa), Pramod Padmanabhan (Pune, India) and Parag S. Kolte (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power take-off (PTO) assembly includes a PTO shaft, a rear PTO arrangement having a rear PTO output shaft extending from the transmission and couplable to a first gear train powered by the rotational power from the PTO shaft, and a countershaft couplable to the first gear train to receive the rotational power from the PTO shaft. The co...