ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,007, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Spray performance deviation detection" was invented by Mark M. Chaney (Ankeny, Iowa), Michael P. Schlax (Yarmouth, Maine), Tarik Loukili (Urbandale, Iowa) and Joshua J. Carson (Urbandale, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For each of a plurality of spray nozzles of an autonomous agricultural vehicle, a set of instructions provided by the autonomous agricultural vehicle to the spray nozzle is accessed. Each instruction in the set is generated by analyzing a respective image of a portion of a geographic area captured by the autonomous agricultural vehicle. A spray...