ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,677, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"System for automatically controlling a transfer process from a harvesting machine to a transport vehicle in consideration of harvested material properties" was invented by Patrick Sauer (Rheinland Palatinate, Germany) and Akshay Khot (Rheinland Palatinate, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically controlling a transfer process, in which harvested material is transferred from a harvesting machine into a cargo container of a transport vehicle, using an electronic control unit, which is configured to generate, on the basis of signals supplied...