US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 24 for "Systems and methods for automated grain cart unloading" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,033, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automated grain cart unloading" was invented by Riley J. Wegmann (Urbana, Iowa) and William J. Vande Haar (Janesville, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic unloading of harvested material from a grain cart to storage compartment(s). In response to activation of the system by an operator, harvested material can be automatically unloaded into the storage compartment based on a predetermined fill profile. The fill profile can provide an indication of the maximum height, weight, and distribution profile(s), amon...