ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,480, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BASF AGRO TRADEMARKS GMBH (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Method for determining a treatment schedule for treating a field" was invented by Holger Hoffmann (Cologne, Germany), Umit Baran Ilbasi (Sao Paulo) and Matthias Gerber (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented method for generating control data configured to be used or usable in an agricultural equipment for treating a field, comprising the following steps: (S10) providing crop data, wherein the crop data comprise information about an agricultural crop species providing crop data grown or sown or plann...