ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,443, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DOWDY CROP INNOVATIONS LLC (Marion, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for controlling crop management equipment" was invented by Randall Leon Siever (Lexington, Ky.), Randy Dowdy (Lexington, Ky.) and Robert Colin Montgomery Willis (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provided herein include systems and methods for controlling crop management equipment. One embodiment includes providing a yield goal for a field from a grower, receiving tissue samples for at least one crop in the field and a seed population for the field, and interpolating individual field grid point values of the...