US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Oct. 7 for "Battery load test in agricultural utility vehicle" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,200, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Battery load test in agricultural utility vehicle" was invented by Sean P. West (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Joseph P. Boyer (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Christopher D. Jensenius (Janesville, Iowa), Shane M. Boden (Vinton, Iowa) and Jeff L. Lubben (Hudson, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An onboard battery load test system for a utility vehicle. The onboard battery load test system includes a vehicle battery, a primary pump disposed in a fluid circuit and configured to pressurize a fluid in the fluid circuit, a backup pump disposed in the fluid circuit as a redundancy to the prim...