US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 1 for "Remote attribute monitoring during an agricultural operation based on obstruction" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,423, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Remote attribute monitoring during an agricultural operation based on obstruction" was invented by Scott N. Clark (Bettendorf, Iowa), Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Nathan E. Krehbiel (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Patrick D. Elledge (Le Claire, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural system includes: a sensor system disposed on a drone communicably coupled to and remotely positionable from an agricultural work machine at a worksite; one or more processors; and memory storing instructions, executable by the one or more processors. The instructions, when exec...