US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on April 29 for "Systems and methods for predictive tractive characteristics and control" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,934, issued on April 29, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predictive tractive characteristics and control" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), William D. Graham (East Moline, Ill.), Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.), Andrew J. Peterson (Ankeny, Iowa), Benjamin M. Lovett (Ottumwa, Iowa), Darin L. Roth (Batavia, Iowa) and Martin Unterpaintner (Saarbrucken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information map is obtained by an agricultural system. The information map maps values of a characteristic at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects tractive char...