US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 18 for "Estimating performance and selecting operating parameters for a farming machine using a calibration pass" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,521, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Estimating performance and selecting operating parameters for a farming machine using a calibration pass" was invented by Benjamin Kahn Cline (San Carlos, Calif.), Christopher Grant Padwick (Menlo Park, Calif.), Chia-Chun Fu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Olgert Denas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating performance characteristics of a farming machine using a performance report is described. The farming machine accesses images of plants in a field captured during the calibration pass. The images are input into a performance model to ge...