US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on March 18 for "Machine learning optimization through randomized autonomous crop planting" (North Carolina, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,894, issued on March 18, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Machine learning optimization through randomized autonomous crop planting" was invented by Michael D. Stellpflug (Cary, N.C.) and Angela L. Bowman (Waukee, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods automate the design and execution of randomized experiments. Portions of a field are planted using an agricultural vehicle configured to randomly vary planting parameters when planting a portion of the field. A resulting crop outcome across each portion or sub-portion of the field is observed. A training set of data is generated that includes the varie...