US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on April 22 for "Determination of applied loads on vehicle tracks by sensors on weight-bearing rollers" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,138, issued on April 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Determination of applied loads on vehicle tracks by sensors on weight-bearing rollers" was invented by Martin Kremmer (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Carroll C. Kellum (Cedar Falls, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction subsystem on a track vehicle has a first roller and a second roller. The first roller rotates either with an axle, or about an axle, and rotatably supports a track in opposition to a surface over which the track is traveling. A sensor is disposed relative to the first roller so that, as the first roller rotates, the sensor moves through a load bearin...