ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,328, issued on March 11, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Mobile machine with improved machine data authentication" was invented by Ali Haidous (Fargo, N.D.), Noel Anderson (Fargo, N.D.) and Gurmukh Advani (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of authenticating a robustly-identifiable system is provided. The method includes causing a processor of a mobile work machine to issue a challenge to a robustly-identifiable sensor module mounted relative to the mobile work machine. The method also includes receiving, by the processor of the mobile work machine, a response from the robustly-identifiable sensor ...