US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on March 17 for "Method and system for estimating performance for position-specific control of an agricultural machine" (Iowa, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,475, issued on March 17, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Method and system for estimating performance for position-specific control of an agricultural machine" was invented by Robert T. Casper (Davenport, Iowa), Nathaniel J. Hartsock (Bettendorf, Iowa), Ryan M. Krogh (Granger, Iowa) and Doug S. Sauder (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, obtained moisture data, planting data, seeding rate and seeding depth, and planted seedbed/furrow quality (e.g., first through fourth data layers associated with select data spear zones distributed throughout the field to conserve data processing resource...