ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,009, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive response map generation and control system" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.) and Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system includes an in-situ sensor that detects a value of a dynamic response characteristic corresponding to a first geographic location, of a plurality of different geographic locations, in a field, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the o...