ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,933, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for initial harvest path prediction and control" was invented by Rana Shakti Singh (Kaimur, India), Bradley K. Yanke (Eldridge, Iowa), Stephen R. Corban (Geneseo, Ill.) and Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes obtaining historical operation data relative to a plurality of historical operations, the historical operation data including historical machine data, historical worksite data, historical productivity data, and historical logistics data; obtaining current operation...