US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on June 23 for "Speed control for harvester" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,752, issued on June 23, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Speed control for harvester" was invented by Jeffrey J. Simoneaux (Gonzales, La.) and Jason C. Buss (Thibodaux, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvester includes a separator configured to separate a cut crop into a billet material and extraneous plant matter, a billet loss sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of the amount of billet material that is lost and unharvested at the separator; a trash sensor configured to generate a second signal indicative of the amount of the extraneous plant matter that is harvested from the separator, and ...