US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 1 for "Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics" (Illinois, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,756, issued on July 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving a map that maps values of a crop characteristic to different locations across a field; receiving harvester route data indicative of a planned route of a harvester at the field; identifying a crop characteristic threshold; identifying a material transfer end location indicative of a location, along the planned route of the harvester, at which a materia...