US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 8 for "Air seeding turn compensation using yaw rate from sensor on towing vehicle" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,614, issued on July 8, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Air seeding turn compensation using yaw rate from sensor on towing vehicle" was invented by William D. Graham (East Moline, Ill.), Robert T. Casper (Davenport, Iowa) and Ray M. Scheufler (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A yaw rate is sensed on a towing vehicle that is towing an air seeder. The sensed yaw rate is used to predict a future yaw rate on a planting implement of the air seeder. An application rate of material is varied across the application implement based upon the predicted yaw rate across the implement."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 202...