US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 8 for "Radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor network for a work machine" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,414, issued on July 8, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor network for a work machine" was invented by Daniel E. Derscheid (Ottumwa, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural work machine, an agricultural work machine control system, and method for an agricultural work machine having Bluetooth enabled RFID tags to determine a fault condition of machine components, devices, parts or systems. The Bluetooth enabled RFID tags are located on, at, or near machine components or systems to sense a temperature of those components or systems. The Bluetooth enabled RFID tags are int...