US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 17 for "Windrower implement with merger attachment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,499, issued on March 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Windrower implement with merger attachment" was invented by Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India) and Mohan A. Vadnere (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A windrower implement includes a merger attachment having a conveyor positioned relative to an implement head to receive discharged crop material from the implement head and convey the crop material to a laterally offset location on a discharge side of the merger attachment. An image sensor is positioned to capture an image of a windrow laterally offset from the central longitudinal axis on the discharge side ...