US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "Commodity cart with improved loading positioning" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,021, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Commodity cart with improved loading positioning" was invented by Derryn W. Pikesh (Geneseo, Ill.) and Andrew W. Harmon (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A commodity cart includes at least one storage tank and a transfer arm having a product chute, a tube portion coupled to the product chute. The tube portion ends in a product outlet. A hydraulic system is coupled to the transfer arm and configured to move the transfer arm to a product loading position wherein the product chute is positioned at a location on the ground. A controller is configured to determ...