ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,298, issued on June 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Method for checking a fault status of a mobile utility unit" was invented by Norbert Fritz (Ilvesheim, Germany) and Martin Kremmer (Laumersheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking a fault status of a mobile utility unit by a maintenance station includes generating via control electronics status data representing a fault status of the mobile utility unit, storing the status data as fault data in a fault memory via the control electronics, classifying via a data processing unit the fault data under different fault classes to identify an applica...