ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,936, issued on April 29, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Row unit plugging detection and control system" was invented by Fabio P. Boufleur (Horizontina, Brazil), Marlon L. Christmann (Horizontina, Brazil) and Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a mobile agricultural machine, the method comprising operating a row unit having a ground-engaging element to deliver product to a furrow formed by the row unit, receiving an indication of rotational speed of the ground-engaging element, determining that the rotational speed of the ground-engaging element is below a threshold, and co...