US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Feb. 3 for "Wrap floor control" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,872, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Wrap floor control" was invented by Jeffrey S. Wigdahl (Ames, Iowa), Ryan A. Hackert (Polk City, Iowa) and Jeffrey R. Fox (Minburn, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrap floor control system for a wrap floor of a cotton harvester with a cotton module forming chamber includes an actuator that moves the wrap floor and a timer module. A floor engagement module commands the wrap floor actuator to move the wrap floor to an engaged position in response to determining initiation of the wrap cycle and commands the wrap floor actuator to move the wrap floor to a disen...