ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,610, issued on July 7, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Baler system and a method of operating the baler system" was invented by Philippe Ostermann (Dijon, France), Pierre Dommange (Maizieres les Metz, France) and Benedikt Jung (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination of a tractor and a baler includes a tractor control unit and a baler control unit. A driving speed of the tractor can be set and/or adjusted with the tractor control unit. The baler includes a bale sensor in order to sense the size of a bale in a baling chamber. The baler control unit is connected to the bale sensor and to the tra...