US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 14 for "Rear wheel steering alignment calibration" (Iowa, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,451, issued on July 14, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Rear wheel steering alignment calibration" was invented by Noah J. Rasmussen (Cambridge, Iowa), Jason J. Wanner (Cedar Falls, Iowa) and Joshua T. Lawson (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes steerable left and right front wheels and steerable left and right rear wheels and a manually operated steering input for steering the wheels through a hydraulic steering circuit connected to left and right front hydraulic actuators configured to steer the left and right front wheels. In order to perform a rear wheel alignment operation, the hyd...