ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,091, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Prognostics in hydraulic transmission system using e-machine drive" was invented by Subhabrata Gupta (Pune, India) and Sourabha Gokhale (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining fluid degradation includes a memory and processing circuitry configured to cause the device to generate first calibration data of an e-machine at a first time, generate second calibration data of the e-machine at a second time subsequent to the first time, and determine that the fluid is degraded in response to a difference between the first calibration data an...