US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 12 for "Automatically detecting or estimating material delivery delays and machine control" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,863, issued on May 12, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Automatically detecting or estimating material delivery delays and machine control" was invented by Mandar Mhalsakant Kale (Pune, India), William D. Graham (East Moline, Ill.), Omkar P. Joshi (Moline, Ill.) and Venkata Nagendra Pavan Kumar Nerellakunta (Moline, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Material is metered by a meter into a delivery conduit from a tank and delivered to a tool on an agricultural machine. A sensor detects when the material arrives at the tool. A delay time is detected between when the meter is activated and when the sensor detects the material...