ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,596, issued on July 7, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Work vehicle systems and methods for soil compaction mitigation navigation" was invented by Shriraam Prabu Subramanian (Pune, India), Mahesh Somarowthu (Pune, India) and Tyler D. Schleicher (Ankeny, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system includes a sink region sensor configured to collect information regarding a sink region; a vehicle sensor configured to collect information regarding current vehicle weight when proximate to the sink region; and a controller. The controller includes processor and memory architecture executing control logic to: ...