ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,440, issued on July 21, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Implementation of machine learning state machines" was invented by Yueqi Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are disclosed for automated design and implementation of machine learning (ML) state machines that include at least some aspect of machine learning. In various implementations, unstructured input may be received from a user. The unstructured input may convey operational aspect(s) of a machine learning (ML) state machine desired by the user. The unstructured input may be semantically processed to determine an intent of the user....