US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 12 for "Predictive speed map generation and control system" (Illinois, Colorado, North Dakota, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,353, issued on May 12, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive speed map generation and control system" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Noel W. Anderson (Fargo, N.D.).

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 agricultural characteristic as the agricultural w...