ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,666, issued on June 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Machine control using a predictive map" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Nathan E. Krehbiel (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.).
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 t...