US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 1 for "System and methods for modular vehicle energy replenishment" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,087, issued on July 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and methods for modular vehicle energy replenishment" was invented by Navin Khadiya (Cedar Falls, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for automatically refueling a vehicle using fuel storage modules. The vehicle can comprise a vehicle-side fuel module storage that is coupled with a fuel manifold to provide fuel to the vehicle. A remote fuel storage can be located proximate the target operation for the vehicle. When a fuel loading event is identified, such as low fuel, the vehicle can transit to the remote fuel...