US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "Harvesting machine unloading control system with automated cart parameter locator" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,022, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Harvesting machine unloading control system with automated cart parameter locator" was invented by Sara C. O'Connor (Clive, Iowa), Kellen E. O'Connor (Clive, Iowa), Jeremy J. Faust (Grimes, Iowa) and Ryan R. White (Polk City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical attribute of a receiving vehicle (a receiving vehicle parameter) is automatically detected by a sensor on a leading vehicle, and a calibration system locates (by calculating a calibrated offset value) the receiving vehicle parameter relative to a reference point on a following vehicle, the following ...