US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 1 for "Predictive machine control" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,260, issued on July 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive machine control" was invented by Andy B. Appleton (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Nohoon Ki (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Wissam H. El-Ratal (Waterloo, Iowa), Rui Zhang (Waterloo, Iowa) and Justin T. Roth (Cedar Falls, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy map is obtained that includes of prescribed machine settings values for controlling a machine to perform an operation at different locations in the field. Sensor signals indicating conditions that will be encountered by the machine in the future, as it moves through the site. A predictive model provides an expected ma...