ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,051, issued on July 22, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Control method for a manually actuated lever provided for actuating an operating and/or work function" was invented by Kamlesh Gaikwad (Saswad, India), Christoph Wagner (Reilingen, Germany) and Sebastian Jung (Heddesheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a control method for actuating a manually actuated lever provided for actuating an operation and/or work function, the manually actuated lever includes a device for hand detection, which releases an actuation of the operation and/or work function when a sensor-based evaluation of the positioning of a pa...