US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 7 for "Implement tool angle control system" (Iowa, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,594, issued on July 7, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Implement tool angle control system" was invented by Adam D. Sporrer (Huxley, Iowa), Shawn J. Becker (Centralia, Kan.), Lucas B. Larsen (Ankeny, Iowa) and Ricky B. Theilen (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural implement includes a plurality of ground-engaging tools configured to modify a surface configuration of an agricultural field and a hydraulically-controlled subsystem configured to modify an operating angle of the plurality of ground-engaging tools. The agricultural implement also includes a sensor coupled to the hydraulically-controll...