US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Feb. 3 for "Machine control using real-time model" (North Dakota, Colorado, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,868, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Machine control using real-time model" was invented by Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.), Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A priori georeferenced vegetative index data is obtained for a worksite, along with field data that is collected by a sensor on a work machine that is performing an operation at the worksite. A predictive model is generated, while the machine is performing the operation, based on the georeferenced vegetative index data and the...