ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,051, issued on June 30, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Performance based agricultural machine speed control" was invented by Matthew D. Hansen (Bondurant, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile agricultural machine includes a set of ground engaging elements, a controllable subsystem configured to perform a work operation on a field, and a control system. The control system is configured to identify a work performance metric representing a performance characteristic of the work operation having an inverse relationship to traversal speed of the mobile agricultural machine over the field, receive an indication of ope...