US Patent Issued to BAYER on May 19 for "Method, vehicle and system for weed control management" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,730, issued on May 19, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Method, vehicle and system for weed control management" was invented by Malcolm Faers (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Andrew Charles Chapple (Langenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method (10) to control weeds comprising the steps of: a) acquiring geopositional information of planted crop seeds on an agricultural field and generating a crop seed map, b) acquiring soil elevation data and the corresponding geopositional information of the soil elevation on the agricultural field where the crop seeds have been planted or are b...