US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "Remote monitoring for detecting crop loss" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,006, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Remote monitoring for detecting crop loss" was invented by Scott N. Clark (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop loss monitoring method includes detecting crop loss in a measurement area when the measurement area corresponds to an unharvested area of a field and generating pre-harvest crop loss sensor data based thereon. The method further includes detecting crop loss in the measurement area when the measurement area is behind a distal end of a header of a harvester and generating harvesting crop loss sensor data ...