US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 4 for "Control system facilitating unloading during crop breakthrough harvesting" (Iowa, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,052, issued on March 4, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Control system facilitating unloading during crop breakthrough harvesting" was invented by Aaron S. Ritter (Milan, Ill.), Corwin M. Puryk (Bettendorf, Calif.) and Bradley K. Yanke (Eldridge, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system controls the operation of a harvester and/or receiving vehicle so that the receiving vehicle can travel adjacent the harvester, behind a harvesting head on the harvester, during a breakthrough pass in the harvesting operation. The control system can include an interlock system which generates an interlock signal when unloading...