ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,524, issued on July 28, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Square baler implement with two speed drivetrain" was invented by Satyanarayana Ps (Nuzvid, India) and Nikhil Kulkarni (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baler implement includes a gear assembly having an input shaft coupled to a power input, and an output shaft coupled to a flywheel. The gear assembly includes a first input gear coupled to the input shaft and a first output gear coupled to the output shaft to define a first gear ratio, and a second input gear coupled to the input shaft and a second output gear coupled to the output shaft to define a ...