US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 15 for "Methods and apparatus to control agricultural application rates" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,010, issued on July 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to control agricultural application rates" was invented by Timothy A. Wilcox (Cissna Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to control agricultural product application rates are disclosed. An example system to control agricultural product application rates includes a field area processor to determine an area of a field to be covered, and an application rate processor including an end product processor to determine an amount of product to be utilized during an application session, the amount of product to be utilized bas...