US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,194, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvesting system includes a harvesting logistics module that is configured to receive a map that maps values of a crop characteristic to different geographic locations in a field. The harvesting logistics module further configured to identify a crop characteristic threshold and to identify a mixture of crop material based on the map and based on the crop characteristic t...