US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 2 for "Dual rotor crop load system and method" (Illinois, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,183, issued on June 2, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Dual rotor crop load system and method" was invented by Jason R. Dehnke (Milan, Ill.), Logan K. Trueblood (Port Byron, Ill.), Derek J. Franke (Monroeville, Ind.) and Nicholas J. Keener (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a first threshing rotor and a second threshing rotor positioned adjacent to the first threshing rotor. Each threshing rotor is configured to rotate to process harvested crop. The agricultural machine includes first and second sensors configured to measure a parameter indicative of crop load on the first thres...