ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,724, issued on May 19, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"User priorities for performing farming actions" was invented by Swen Ulrich Conrad (Mountain View, Calif.), Anthony John Latham (Ankeny, Iowa) and Kent Michael Anderson (Signal Mountain, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to a control system sending for display a first user interface requesting user priority values for treatment metrics. The control system receives, as input from a user interacting with the first user interface, user priority values. The control system operates the farming machine according to the user priority values. Based ...