ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,776, issued on June 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Harvesting machine haulage vehicle coordination control" was invented by Matthew D. Hansen (Bondurant, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvesting machine includes a harvested crop repository and a crop processing system configured to engage crop in a field, perform a crop processing operation on the crop, and move the processed crop to the harvested crop repository, the crop processing system including a transfer mechanism configured to transfer the processed crop to a support machine. The agricultural harvesting machine includes a control system c...