ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,672, issued on March 25, was assigned to Deere &Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Harvester with feed forward control of filling mechanisms" was invented by Jeremy J. Faust (Grimes, Iowa) and Kellen E. O'Connor (Clive, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvester has a frame and a spout that is movably mounted relative to the frame. A spout actuator drives movement of the spout relative to the frame based on a spout actuator control signal. Harvesting functionality engages material from a field and delivers the material through an outlet end of the spout as the agricultural harvester moves through the field in a direction of tra...