ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,292, issued on May 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Square baler implement with twine monitoring system" was invented by Umesh B. Jadhao (Ottumwa, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baler implement includes a housing defining a baling chamber for forming a bale having a parallelepiped shape, and a knotter system for wrapping and tying twine around the bale. A knotter controller is configured to determine a remaining length of a first twine in a first twine supply, and determine a remaining length of a second twine in a second twine supply. The knotter controller may then calculate an estimated remaining number of b...