ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,994, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kinze Manufacturing Inc. (Williamsburg, Iowa).

"Methods of communicating aspects of AG based operations" was invented by Robert Blackwell (Williamsburg, Iowa), Rhett Schildroth (Williamsburg, Iowa), Michael J. Myers (Williamsburg, Iowa), Merlan J. Rolffs (Pella, Iowa) and Derrick Becker (Williamsburg, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The use of self-powered, autonomous vehicles in agricultural and other domestic applications is provided. The vehicles include a self-propelled drive system, tracks or wheels operatively connected to the drive system, a power supply operatively connected to the ...