US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Jan. 13 for "Method, control device and compacting vehicle for compacting harvested crops in a silo" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,769, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Method, control device and compacting vehicle for compacting harvested crops in a silo" was invented by Stefan Brocke (Mannheim, Germany) and Norbert Fritz (Ilvesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compacting silage in a silo includes controlling a compacting vehicle via an electronic control device, passing over the silage deposited in the silo with the compacting vehicle, exerting a compacting action along a compacting path via the compacting vehicle, and varying the compacting action of the compacting vehicle in a location-dependent manner a...