US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Feb. 10 for "Shifting one or more guidance lines for navigating an agricultural machine to follow crop rows" (Iowa, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,186, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Shifting one or more guidance lines for navigating an agricultural machine to follow crop rows" was invented by Glen L. Oetken (Ankeny, Iowa) and David August Johnson (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvester includes a navigation system that controls navigation of the agricultural harvester to follow a guidance line. The agricultural harvester is positioned at a desired location to engage the crop. An operator interface is generated with a shift actuator. Operator actuation of the shift actuator is detected, and a line/path shift pr...