ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,280, issued on March 24, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Map generation and control system" was invented by Nathan R Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Bradley K. Yanke (Eldridge, Iowa), Noel W. Anderson (West Fargo, N.D.), Mehul Bhavsar (Pune, India) and Hrishikesh Tupe (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricul...