ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,995, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Round baler wrap usage indicator" was invented by Daniel E. Derscheid (Ottumwa, Iowa), Bart A. Coffman (Eddyville, Iowa) and Eric M. Thies (Adel, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a status of a supply of wrap material of a baler implement includes receiving a supply roll length input when a new supply roll of wrap material is loaded into a wrap system of the baler implement. A respective length of the wrap material used to wrap each bale since receiving the supply roll length input is determined and summed together to define a total curr...