US Patent Issued to Deere &Company on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for time estimation for machine operations" (Iowa, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,714, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Deere &Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for time estimation for machine operations" was invented by Ryan Kirk (Urbandale, Iowa), Palash Gupta (Urbandale, Iowa) and Mayur Deo (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises identifying an area of worksite at which an operation is to be performed, identifying a historical rate of work metric, obtaining a model, identifying a number of work machines that are to perform the operation, identifying a crop type corresponding to the operation to be performed, identifying an ETC metric based on the area of the worksite, the histor...