US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for predictive ground engaging machine control" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,807, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predictive ground engaging machine control" was invented by Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Andrew J. Peterson (Ankeny, Iowa), Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.), William D. Graham (East Moline, Ill.) and Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more information maps map one or more characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects a soil property value as a ground engaging machine o...