US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 31 for "Systems and methods for crop stabilization and measurement" (North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,590, issued on March 31, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for crop stabilization and measurement" was invented by Gurmukh H. Advani (West Fargo, N.D.), Michael L. Rhodes (Richfield, Minn.), Kevin P. Cowles (Ankeny, Iowa), Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.), Ali Haidous (Johnston, Iowa), Andrew M. Schefter (Fargo, N.D.) and Eric M. Johnson (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stabilizers of an agricultural header can be either, or both, displaceable and deformable in response to engagement with a portion of a crop, such as, for example, a stalk, in a manner that can assist in stabilizing the crop ...