ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,285, issued on May 27, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural operation evaluation system and method" was invented by Zachary A. Meyers (Milan, Ill.), Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Derek J. Franke (Monroeville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural operation evaluation system for an agricultural work vehicle includes an offboard device configured to collect offboard feedback associated with the agricultural operation and location information; and a controller. The controller is configured to receive the offboard feedback and the location information for the offboard feedback from the offbo...