US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 29 for "Methods and apparatus to determine agricultural start points" (Texas, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,691, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to determine agricultural start points" was invented by Jacob Moellers (Urbandale, Iowa) and Alisha N. Schwertner (Miles, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: collect historical vehicle usage data that includes: descriptions of agricultural activities performed on a field, start points o...