US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "System and method to control plugging of a windrower" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,017, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method to control plugging of a windrower" was invented by Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India), Mahi Agrawal (Pune, India) and Kewal K. Ukunde (Satak, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auger slip can be monitored to determine when an auger slip condition indicative of possible plugging of a harvesting work vehicle is present. In response to the auger slip condition, various implements of the harvesting work vehicle can be adjusted to resolve the auger slip condition or mitigate plugging. The implements may include a cutter bar, an auger, a roll gap, a swa...