US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 31 for "Sugarcane harvester machine data based sugar prediction and mapping" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,597, issued on March 31, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Sugarcane harvester machine data based sugar prediction and mapping" was invented by Jason C. Buss (Thibodaux, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sugarcane harvester includes a sensor suite configured for sensing data related to one of a crop yield, a wagon trash content, and a crop pour rate. A computing device is operable to determine a crop yield at a first time during a first time period, determine a wagon trash content at the first time, and determine a crop pour rate at the first time. The computing device may then estimate a delivered sugar weight per uni...