ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,254, issued on June 2, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Managing transition behavior between control modes on a work machine" was invented by Aaron R. Kenkel (Hazel Green, Wis.) and Jeffery W. Dobchuk (Saskatoon, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine has a plurality of different control systems. Each control system generates a request or control signal to control a controllable subsystem. A control supervisor selects which of the plurality of control systems is to control the controllable subsystem and provides feedback to the plurality of control systems indicating which of the plurality of control systems ...