US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 15 for "Detection of corn head row unit slip clutch disengagement using perception system" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,069, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Detection of corn head row unit slip clutch disengagement using perception system" was invented by Nicholas C. Baltz (Port Byron, Ill.), Chad R. Borkgren (Coal Valley, Ill.), Ashraf Qadir (Ankeny, Iowa), Logan K. Trueblood (Port Byron, Ill.) and Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perception system coupled to a harvesting head that includes row units, and slip clutches configured to couple the row units to a drive shaft and automatically disengage a jammed row unit. The perception system includes vision sensors collecting image data in...