US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 30 for "Basecutter assembly control for a sugarcane harvester" (Louisiana, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,045, issued on June 30, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Basecutter assembly control for a sugarcane harvester" was invented by Bryan E. Dugas (Thibodaux, La.) and Peter A. Johnson (Sartell, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A basecutter assembly for a sugarcane harvester includes a cutting spindle powered by a first power source, and a transport spindle powered by a second power source independent of the cutting spindle. A torque sensor is coupled to the cutting spindle. A harvester controller defines a target cutting torque value for the cutting spindle based on a desired crop cut height and determines a current cutt...