US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on March 18 for "Implement management system for determining implement state" (Iowa, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,689, issued on March 18, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Implement management system for determining implement state" was invented by Tyler D. Schleicher (Ankeny, Iowa), Curtis A. Maeder (Johnston, Iowa), Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.) and Jeffrey E. Runde (Cedar Falls, Iowa).

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 o...