ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,691, issued on June 16, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Plant treatment model training based on agricultural image interaction" was invented by Swen Ulrich Conrad (Mountain View, Calif.) and Anthony John Latham (Ankeny, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to training a plant treatment model. A control system may provide images of plants for display to a user. The control system may receive one or more plant treatment action preferences of the user. The one or more plant treatment action preferences include labels for the images that identify plants in the images and treatment actions to be applied to t...