US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 24 for "Implement management system for implement wear detection and estimation" (Iowa, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,637, issued on June 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Implement management system for implement wear detection and estimation" was invented by Curtis A. Maeder (Johnston, Iowa), Tyler D. Schleicher (Ankeny, Iowa) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implement management system detects implement wear and monitors implement states to modify operating modes of a vehicle. The system can determine implement wear using the pull of the implement on the vehicle, the force and angle of which is represented by an orientation vector. The system may measure a current orientation vector and determine ...