US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Aug. 12 for "Crop constituents and agricultural harvester control" (Iowa, North Dakota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,867, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Crop constituents and agricultural harvester control" was invented by Brandon M. McDonald (Johnston, Iowa), Ryan F. Satchell (Cutler, Ind.), Christopher L. Roth (Ankeny, Iowa), Timothy O. Meister (Ottumwa, Iowa) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile agricultural machine includes a header configured to engage crop at a worksite and a controllable header actuator configured to drive movement of the header relative to a surface of the worksite. The mobile agricultural machine further includes a crop constituent sensor system configur...