US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 17 for "Predictive weed map and material application machine control" (Illinois, Colorado, North Dakota, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,148, issued on June 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive weed map and material application machine control" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.), David A. Hanson (Urbandale, Iowa), Andrea M. Agarwal (Ankeny, Iowa) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A predictive map is obtained by an agricultural material application system. The predictive map maps predictive weed values at different geographic locations in a field. A geographic position sensor detects a geographic locations of a...