ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,286, issued on May 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Crop constituent sensing" was invented by Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop constituent value is sensed by a crop constituent sensor on an agricultural machine. The crop constituent value is distributed among subregions covered by the agricultural machine. A vegetative index-estimated crop constituent value is obtained for each of the subregions. A weighted crop constituent value is generated for each subregion based upon the distributed...