ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,455, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Corwin M. Puryk (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more maps map characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. The agricultural system identifies one or more operational constraints. The agricultural system generates a control output to control operation of a mo...