ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,990, issued on July 14, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural vehicles for collecting grain or other agricultural material" was invented by Aaron S. Ritter (Milan, Ill.) and Snehalrao Jadhav (Satara, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example grain carts have movable doors to provide access to an interior cavity. Grain carts may have more than one door, and the one or more doors are movable between an open position to expose one or more openings and a closed position to conceal one or more openings formed in one or more sides of a bin of the grain cart."

The patent was filed on July 28, 2022, under Applicat...