ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,195, issued on April 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method for feed control in a spreader" was invented by Paresh Bharatiya (Bettendorf, Iowa), Augustine Y. Chow (Johnston, Iowa), Nilesh Dhavan (Kolhapur, India) and Mandar Mhalsakant Kale (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed control system for a spreader includes a section configuration module configured to output a section configuration and a section control module configured to receive the section configuration, determine a first actuator position based on the section configuration, and determine a second actuator position based on the sect...