US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Dec. 30 for "Agricultural system with deck plate positioning control" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,628, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural system with deck plate positioning control" was invented by Troy M. Heims (Davenport, Iowa), Nathan E. Krehbiel (Bettendorf, Iowa), Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.), Curtis R. Hammer (Bettendorf, Iowa), Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Meghna Chandrasekaran (Moline, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system comprises a stalk-diameter sensing system associated with a row unit and configured to sense diameter-related data of respective stalks and generate signals based on the diameter-related data. Deck plates associated with the row...