US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on March 17 for "Automated lockout system for header" (American, Mexican, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,497, issued on March 17, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Automated lockout system for header" was invented by Shreyas P. Modak (Thane, India), Alex A. Brimeyer (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Shally Jarquin Cadena (Monterrey, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated lockout systems for moving a cutterbar between a rigid configuration and a flexible configuration in response to actuation of one or more gauge wheels. In some implementations, a cutterbar is movable into a rigid configuration in response to extension of a gauge wheel. In some implementations, the cutterbar is movable into a flexibl...