US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 13 for "Predictive material consumption map and control" (Illinois, Colorado, North Dakota, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,767, issued on May 13, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive material consumption map and control" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information map is obtained by an agricultural system. The information map maps values of a characteristic at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects material consumption values as a mobile material application machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator generates ...