US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 14 for "Weed treatment systems" (Pennsylvania, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,820, issued on July 14, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Weed treatment systems" was invented by Tiffany L. Ingersoll (Maxwell, Iowa) and Erik A. Sorensen (Warren, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for spraying an agricultural field provides a weed distribution model including information corresponding to a weed distribution as a function of geographic location within the field. An initial portion of the field is sprayed with a first product from a first tank leaving a remaining portion of the field to be sprayed. A quantity of the first product from the first tank required to complete the spraying of the remain...