US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 8 for "Customized work planning for automated loading, unloading, and transport operations by scraper systems" (Iowa, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,509, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Customized work planning for automated loading, unloading, and transport operations by scraper systems" was invented by John M. Hageman (Dubuque, Iowa), Joshua T. Lawson (Woodbury, Minn.) and Francois Stander (Dubuque, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for controlling operation of earth working machines, e.g., scraper units configured to load, transport, and unload material depending on the respective work state. A design plan (e.g., a cut-fill map) is obtained corresponding to a working area to which the earth working machines are...