US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Dec. 16 for "Using machine learning to identify a degradation state of an autonomous agricultural vehicle" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,058, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Using machine learning to identify a degradation state of an autonomous agricultural vehicle" was invented by Scott M. Buse (Adel, Iowa), Mark M. Chaney (Ankeny, Iowa) and Joshua J. Carson (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For each of a plurality of spray nozzles of an autonomous agricultural vehicle, a set of instructions provided by the autonomous agricultural vehicle to the spray nozzle is accessed. Each instruction in the set is generated by analyzing a respective image of a portion of a geographic area captured by the autonomous agricultural vehic...