US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 20 for "Crop constituents, predictive mapping, and agricultural harvester control" (North Dakota, Iowa, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,791, issued on May 20, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Crop constituents, predictive mapping, and agricultural harvester control" was invented by Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.), Brandon M. McDonald (Johnston, Iowa), Timothy O. Meister (Ottumwa, Iowa), Christopher L. Roth (Ankeny, Iowa) and Ryan F. Satchell (Cutler, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map is obtained by an agricultural system. The map includes values of one or more characteristics at different geographic locations in a worksite. In-situ sensor data indicative of values of one or more crop constituents at cut heights is obtained as the mobile machine ope...