US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 17 for "Row unit overlap avoidance system and method" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,472, issued on March 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Row unit overlap avoidance system and method" was invented by Dnyanesh K. Dhobale (Parbhani, India), Elijah B. Garner (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Andrew W. Harmon (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural planting system comprises an implement configured to be coupled to a work machine, row units of the implement, and first and second pairs of wheels configured to pivot and rotate to facilitate a turning operation during forward travel of the planting system. The row units are arranged in first and second ranks depending on their forward-aft placeme...