ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,194, issued on July 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"System and method for controlling soil compaction" was invented by Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.) and Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for minimizing soil compaction relating to operations performed by agricultural machines. The agricultural machines can be guided so that at least one engagement body travels along an existing track path that was established by a prior travel of the same or different agricultural machine. Further, travel plans can determine the sequence in which the agricultural machine(s) travel in are...