ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,876, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Dynamically adjusting treatment buffers for plant treatments" was invented by Austin Schuh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephan Pleines (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthew Potter (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jacob Goldstein (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a farming machine travels through a field of plants, the farming machine accesses an image of a field including a plant and receives sensor signals from one or more sensors coupled to the farming machine. The farming machine applies the image and sensor signals to a computer model to determine a spatial relationsh...