ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,179, issued on July 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Map based farming for windrower operation" was invented by Benjamin M. Lovett (Ottumwa, Iowa), Darin L. Roth (Batavia, Iowa) and Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more information maps map one or more characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects a weed value as a mobile machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that maps predictive weed values at different geogr...