US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 4 for "Intermediate tanks for frame weight distribution" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,920, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Intermediate tanks for frame weight distribution" was invented by Andrew W. Harmon (Geneseo, Ill.) and Gerald E. Rains (Eldridge, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for distributing commodity across an agricultural machine includes a product storage system, including a central commodity tank and a plurality of intermediate commodity tanks positioned at various locations laterally across a frame. The system includes a movable manifold coupled to the one central commodity tank, and the manifold is adjustable by a controller to control volume of commodity distr...