US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Sept. 23 for "Predictive map generation and control system" (Illinois, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,220, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive map generation and control system" was invented by Nathan R Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, La.).

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 moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a pred...