US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on April 21 for "Generation and application of location embeddings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,590, issued on April 21, was assigned to DEERE & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Generation and application of location embeddings" was invented by Hongxu Ma (Mountain View, Calif.), Gengchen Mai (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Bin Ni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for generating location embeddings that capture spatial dependence and heterogeneity of data, making the embeddings suitable for downstream statistical analysis and/or machine learning processing. In various implementations, a position coordinate for a geographic location of interest may be processed using a spatial dependence encode...