US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Oct. 21 for "Mobile work machine control based on control zone map data" (Iowa, North Dakota, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,811, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Mobile work machine control based on control zone map data" was invented by Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control zones are identified on a thematic map and work machine actuator settings are identified for each control zone. A position of the work machine is sensed and actuators on the work machine are controlled based on the control zone that the work machine is in, and based upon the actuator settings corresponding to the control zone. The control ...