US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 24 for "Use of coverage areas in controlling agricultural machine operations" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,018, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Use of coverage areas in controlling agricultural machine operations" was invented by Michael A. Torzewski (Urbandale, Iowa), Pradeep Ghorpade (Pune, India), Amey Katti (Pune, India), Kshitija Harish Petkar (Pune, India) and Brandon M. McDonald (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidance system that automatically switches guidance modes in connection with executing an end turn. As the agricultural machine travels in a first, row sense guidance mode along a first guidance line in a non-coverage area, an approaching boundary between the non-coverage a...