US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Feb. 10 for "Generating soil strength metric during row unit operation and controlling row unit" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,615, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Generating soil strength metric during row unit operation and controlling row unit" was invented by Elijah B. Garner (Bettendorf, Iowa), Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.) and Kelby J. Krueger (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a soil strength generation system that generates an output indicator of soil strength. A control system generates on action signal based on the soil strength."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2022, under Application No. 18/056,935.

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