ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,759, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predicting material dynamics" 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: "A first in-situ sensor detects a characteristic value as a mobile machine operates at a worksite. A second in-situ sensor detects a material dynamics characteristic value as the mobile machine operates at the worksite. A predictive model generator generates a predictive model that models a relationship between the characteristic and the materials dynamics characteristic based on the chara...