ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,733, issued on July 1, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Rotary mechanism with adjustable tone wheel" was invented by Ramesh Krishna Dandage (Ichalkaranji, India), Bhuvan Kothari (Indore, India) and Brent R. Gernant (Davenport, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary mechanism comprises a fastener and a tone wheel. The tone wheel comprises a first radial flange, a second radial flange, a first target, and a second target. The first and second targets mounted respectively to the first and second radial flanges to be sensed by a sensor. Each of the first radial flange and the second radial flange comprises a pluralit...