US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Aug. 4 for "Preventing damage by farming machine" (California, Nevada, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,892, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Preventing damage by farming machine" was invented by Kent Anderson (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Ben Chostner (San Francisco), Bryon Majusiak (Incline Village, Nev.), Divya Sharma (Incline Village, Nev.) and Lee Redden (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming machine moves through a field and performs one or more farming actions (e.g., treating one or more plants) in the field. Portions of the field may include moisture, such as puddles or mud patches. A control system associated with the farming machine may include a traversability model and/or a mois...