ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,759, issued on June 23, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Control system and method for balers using crop constituents" was invented by Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baler for forming a bale of crop material includes a bale chamber for forming the bale. One or more constituent property sensors are configured to detect one or more constituent properties other than moisture content of the crop material used to form the bale and to generate one or more sensor signals corresponding to the one or more constituent properties. One or more bale forming actuators ...