US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "Controlling an agricultural system based on time to empty and refill count" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,899, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Controlling an agricultural system based on time to empty and refill count" was invented by Mandar Mhalsakant Kale (Pune, India), Nilesh Dhavan (Pune, India) and Alaka Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weight of material remaining in a container of an application machine is detected, and operation characteristics corresponding to the operation being performed are also obtained. A time to empty value is calculated that is indicative of a time until the container on the material application machine is empty, based upon the weight of material remaining ...