US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 28 for "Automated raising and lowering of implement for farming machine" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,509, issued on July 28, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Automated raising and lowering of implement for farming machine" was invented by Kevin J. Goering (Cambridge, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming vehicle is configured to automatically raise and lower an implement for the farming vehicle. The farming vehicle may measure a duration to lower the implement during a calibration period or during the first time the farming vehicle lowers the implement to operate on a field. When entering the headland to turn around between rows, the farming vehicle may raise the implement after determining that the entire implem...