ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,277, issued on July 14, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Method of automatic delay compensation for implement control with work machine" was invented by Qiang R. Liu (Urbandale, Iowa) and Ashish Barsu Patil (West Des Moines, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automated self-correction of lookahead delay for working intermissions of at least one work implement associated with a work machine. During traverse by the work machine of a work area, one or more working conditions are determined and command generated to at least one actuator corresponding to a working intermission for an assoc...