ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,338, issued on April 29, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Method for supplying a mobile usage unit with a consumable" was invented by Norbert Fritz (Ilvesheim, Germany) and Martin Kremmer (Laumersheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supplying a mobile usage unit with a consumable delivered by a movable delivery connection of a maintenance station to a supply inlet of the mobile usage unit includes identifying via a sensor system a supply inlet of the mobile usage unit, the sensor system providing data to a control unit, fluidly connecting via the control unit the delivery connection to the identifi...