US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "System and method for predicting and acting upon airborne obscurant conditions related to activity in a work area" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,007, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method for predicting and acting upon airborne obscurant conditions related to activity in a work area" was invented by Michael C. Bullis (Urbandale, Iowa), Bimal Jacob (Urbandale, Iowa), Scott J. Breiner (Dubuque, Iowa) and Brett S. Graham (Dubuque, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for predicting airborne obscurant conditions related to work machine activity in a work area. Models are developed by collecting time-series inputs for changes in airborne obscurant levels, and corresponding activity by work machines in the sa...