US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on April 21 for "Machine control based upon estimated operator skill level trend" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,791, issued on April 21, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Machine control based upon estimated operator skill level trend" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parameter values are detected for parameters that are indicative of an operator skill level. An operator skill level trend is generated, indicative of how the skill level of the operator changes over a future interval. A machine control signal is generated based upon the operator skill level trend."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2022, under Application No. 17/858,481.

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