US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "Farming machines configured to treat plants with a combination of treatment mechanisms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,106, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Farming machines configured to treat plants with a combination of treatment mechanisms" was invented by Stephan Pleines (Sunnyvale, Calif.), William Louis Patzoldt (Gilroy, Calif.), Austin Schuh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jacob Goldstein (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Filip R. Reese (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Matthew Potter (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming machine is configured to identify a plant from a captured image and select two or more treatment mechanisms to treat the plant. To do so, the farming machine identifies characteristics of the plant, determin...