US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 26 for "Sprayer control based on predictive crop characteristics" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,678, issued on May 26, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Sprayer control based on predictive crop characteristics" was invented by Travis J. Auderer (Ankeny, Iowa), Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Kevin A. Thelen (Ankeny, Iowa), Richard A. Humpal (Ankeny, Iowa) and Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information map is obtained by an agricultural system. The information map maps characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects values of a crop characteristic as a mobile machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator gene...