ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,806, issued on June 23, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Intelligent weed treatment" was invented by Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image of a portion of a geographic area is accessed by a farming machine. The image is analyzed by the farming machine to identify a plant in the portion of the geographic area. A treatment plan is determined for the plant by the farming machine based on one or more characteristics of the plant and further based on a set of treatment objectives. The set of treatment objectives including two or more of a plant hindrance objective, a plant reproduction limiting ...