US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 31 for "Fob geometry for leak detection in mobile equipment" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,859, issued on March 31, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Fob geometry for leak detection in mobile equipment" was invented by Paul D. Marvin (Dewitt, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic leak detection apparatus includes a detector body having a bore therethrough configured to receive a cylindrical hydraulic conduit through the bore. The detector body may be eccentrically distributed relative to a central bore axis so as to define a laterally protruding portion of the detector body. The laterally protruding portion of the detector body may have a laterally extending body passage defined therein communicated w...