ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,388, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Apparatus, method and system for assessing field conditions" was invented by Mandar M. Kale (Pune, India), Rahul G. Gunda (Pune, India) and Dipankar D. Dongare (Dombivali, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for identifying field conditions of a field. Site conditions of a target site affecting machine sink can be identified using real-time or historical data. Soil conditions, weather conditions, moisture levels, and other factors may be used to determine whether a target site may result in machine sink of a targe...