US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Sept. 8 for "Agricultural residue distribution control system and method" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,536, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural residue distribution control system and method" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.) and Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural residue distribution control system associated with an agricultural work vehicle includes one or more sensors configured to collect information of an initial state at a field location including an amount of biomass at the field location, soil characteristics at the field location, or both, during the initial state; and a controller. The cont...