US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Aug. 19 for "System and method to operate cruise control for self-propelled windrower" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,117, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method to operate cruise control for self-propelled windrower" was invented by Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India), Mohan A. Vadnere (Pune, India) and Mitchell R. Usasz (Ottumwa, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cruise control system and method for a work vehicle with vehicle interlocks, and a controller. Each vehicle interlock monitors a vehicle system status. When at least one of the vehicle interlocks is triggered, the controller notifies the operator of the triggered interlock and deactivates cruise control. An activation mechanism can activate cruis...