US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 17 for "System and method for controlling machine based on cost of harvest" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,493, issued on March 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method for controlling machine based on cost of harvest" was invented by Stephen R. Corban (Geneseo, Ill.), Mario L Donini (Bettendorf, Iowa), Kent S. Brown (Sherrard, Ill.) and Adam J. Donohoe (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system of an agricultural machine for performing a harvest operation includes a controller having a memory unit and a processor. The control system also includes a fuel sensor, a grain loss sensor and at least one user control of a plurality of user controls disposed in communication with the controller. ...