ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,805, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Methods and systems to determine material transfer locations" was invented by Rana Shakti Singh (Kaimur, India), Stephen R. Corban (Geneseo, Ill.), Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.), Corey A. Akers (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Ryan C. Russell (Orion, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material transfer operation system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to identify a material transfer machine material...