US Patent Issued to Deere & Co., Iowa State University Research Foundation on Aug. 26 for "Crop feed rate control system for a harvester vehicle" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,392, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.) and Iowa State University Research Foundation (Ames, Iowa).

"Crop feed rate control system for a harvester vehicle" was invented by Jeffrey S. Wigdahl (Ames, Iowa), Jeffrey C. Askey (Boone, Iowa), Mark A. Cracraft (Johnston, Iowa) and Vasisvaran Gopal (West Des Moines, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop feed rate control system provides crop processing data to a vehicle control system. The crop feed rate control system includes one or more feedback systems that operably provide a feedback signal including data indicative of a detected load amount for crop proc...