US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 31 for "Systems and methods for controlling harvested material fill profiles" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,589, issued on March 31, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling harvested material fill profiles" was invented by William J. Vande Haar (Janesville, Iowa), Riley J. Wegmann (Urbana, Iowa) and Moresh Kolhe (Punawale, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fill detection system for controlling and optimizing a discharge of a commodity into a receiving container from a supply container. The system can determine a measured fill profile for the commodity in the receiving container that can be at least partially based on information from one or more height sensing sensors. The system can also dete...