US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics" (Illinois, Colorado, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,929, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.), Nathan Greuel (Le Claire, Iowa) and Andrew Wesley Keenan (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvesting system obtains a yield map that maps yield values to different geographic locations in a worksite and a speed map that maps agricultural harvester speed values to different geographic locations in the worksite. The agricultural harvesting sy...