US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 17 for "Map generation and control system" (Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,065, issued on June 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Map generation and control system" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Bradley K. Yanke (Eldridge, Iowa) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through th...