ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,724, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Map based farming for windrower operation" was invented by Benjamin M. Lovett (Ottumwa, Iowa), Darin L. Roth (Batavia, Iowa) 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 crop lodging value as a mobile windrowing machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that maps predictive crop lo...