ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,098, issued on May 5, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method to control crop loss in a windrower implement" was invented by Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India) and Mahi Agrawal (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A windrower implement includes a merger attachment coupled to a frame rearward of an implement head. The merger attachment includes a conveyor positioned relative to the implement head to receive discharged crop material from the implement head and convey the crop material laterally relative to the central longitudinal axis to form a windrow laterally offset from the central longitudinal axis. A for...