US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Aug. 12 for "Agricultural harvesting machine with pre-emergence weed detection and mitigation system" (Illinois, North Dakota, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,945, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural harvesting machine with pre-emergence weed detection and mitigation system" was invented by Sebastian Blank (Moline, Ill.), Curtis R. Hammer (Bettendorf, Iowa), Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.), Dohn W. Pfeiffer (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Gurmukh H. Advani (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvesting machine includes crop processing functionality configured to engage crop in a field, perform a crop processing operation on the crop, and move the processed crop to a harvested crop repository, and a control system configured to...