US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 23 for "Predictive agricultural model and map generation" (Illinois, North Dakota, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,847, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive agricultural model and map generation" was invented by Nathan R Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.) and Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine m...