ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,879, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Modular precision agriculture system" was invented by Lee Kamp Redden (Palo Alto, Calif.), James Patrick Ostrowski (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kent Anderson (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Edward William Jeffcott Pell (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular system includes a hub and a set of modules removably coupled to the hub. The modules are physically coupled to the frame relative to each other so that each module can operate with respect to a different row of a field. An individual module includes a sensor for capturing field measurement data of individual p...