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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2023
Applicant:

Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);

Inventors:

Scott M. Buse, Adel, IA (US);

Mark M. Chaney, Ankeny, IA (US);

Joshua J. Carson, Urbandale, IA (US);

Assignee:

Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/029 (2012.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01); A01M 7/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G05B 23/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/029 (2013.01); A01B 69/008 (2013.01); A01M 7/0014 (2013.01); A01M 7/0089 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2050/007 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0083 (2013.01); B60W 2050/021 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0292 (2013.01); B60W 2300/15 (2013.01); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02);
Abstract

For each of a plurality of spray nozzles of an autonomous agricultural vehicle, a set of instructions provided by the autonomous agricultural vehicle to the spray nozzle is accessed. Each instruction in the set is generated by analyzing a respective image of a portion of a geographic area captured by the autonomous agricultural vehicle. A spray performance of at least one spray nozzle from among the plurality of spray nozzles is identified as an outlier by analyzing the sets of instructions respectively provided to the plurality of spray nozzles. An action with respect to the at least one spray nozzle identified as the outlier is performed. The action may be to place the vehicle in fallback state in which a targeted spray may be switched to broadcast spray.


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