US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 14 for "Method for non-contact ground moisture level estimation at various depths using reflected energy at a work machine" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,966, issued on July 14, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Method for non-contact ground moisture level estimation at various depths using reflected energy at a work machine" was invented by Mark D. Moran (Champaign, Ill.), Nathan Ogden (Champaign, Ill.) and Chad A. Ackerman (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a method, model generation includes receiving inputs comprising actual soil properties comprising moisture values at a training ground surface and corresponding ground depths, temperature, surface-RF antenna distance, and antenna vibration. RF signals across a first frequency range are emitted...