US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on July 14 for "Power take off shifter arrangement" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,201, issued on July 14, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Power take off shifter arrangement" was invented by Pramod Padmanabhan (Pune, India), Sandeep Chougule (Pune, India), Roshan Sharma (Jaipur, India), Mark J. Tieszen (Holland, Iowa) and John J. Gallen (Waterloo, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power take-off assembly includes a first gear, a second gear, a first PTO arrangement having an output gear, a second PTO arrangement having a countershaft gear, a coupler sleeve having internal splines in engagement with a first annular hub of the first gear, and a PTO shifter arrangement having a shifting ring with ...