US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Dec. 30 for "Intelligent boom control with end effector leveling for a feller buncher" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,639, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Intelligent boom control with end effector leveling for a feller buncher" was invented by Simo Laitinen (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko Palmroth (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector leveling system for moving an end effector of a work machine with a boom assembly, a plurality of sensors, an input interface, and a controller. The plurality of sensors are configured to sense a current movement speed of the hoist boom, the stick boom, and the end effector. The input interface is configured to receive an end effector target angle input comma...