US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Oct. 7 for "Agricultural harvesting machine cutter height control" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,191, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural harvesting machine cutter height control" was invented by Bryan E. Dugas (Thibodaux, La.), Mark S. Louviere (Houma, La.) and John A. Dighton (Napoleonville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an agricultural harvesting machine having a harvesting device configured to engage and cut crop on a field. The method includes receiving an indication of field topography in a first area of the field prior to the first area being harvested, controlling a position of the harvesting device to harvest the crop in the first area based on the ...