US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 26 for "Agricultural product application field map visualization and control" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,680, issued on May 26, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural product application field map visualization and control" was invented by Michelle Kwak (Ankeny, Iowa) and Andrew M. Colosky (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining image data indicative of plant matter on a field and identifying, based on the image data, one or more areas on the field in a path of an agricultural machine to apply an agricultural product. The agricultural machine includes a product application system having a plurality of actuatable applicator mechanisms, and the one or more areas includes some, but not ...