US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Aug. 12 for "Method for locating and planting sentinel plants" (North Dakota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,856, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Method for locating and planting sentinel plants" was invented by Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planter configured for planting a sentinel plant in a field. The planter comprises a first planting system that is coupled to the planter. The first planting system is configured for planting a first sentinel plant having a first sentinel plant characteristic. A global positioning system is communicatively coupled to the planter. The global positioning system is configured for generating a location signal indicative of a location of th...