US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 18 for "Machine control using a predictive map" (North Dakota, Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,905, issued on March 18, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Machine control using a predictive map" was invented by Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.), Nathan R Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa).

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 the field. A predictive map gen...