ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,688, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Dynamic generation of experimental treatment plans" was invented by James Patrick Ostrowski (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Ray Chostner (San Francisco), Kent Michael Anderson (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Erik Ehn (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and William Louis Patzoldt (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming machine is configured to autonomously operate in a field to accomplish a farming objective. While doing so the farming machine can dynamically modify treatment plans and/or generate experimental treatment plans. Dynamically modifying treatment plans inc...