US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Aug. 12 for "Predictive power map generation and control system" (Illinois, North Dakota, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,354, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive power map generation and control system" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predict...