Patents by Inventor Eric M. HEIEN

Eric M. HEIEN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12499667
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes obtaining, from one or more image providers, a set of one or more overhead images of a worksite, each overhead image including values indicative of a characteristic at different geographic locations across the worksite; identifying an image performance quality metric for each overhead image based on an image performance quality model; determining if at least one overhead image can be selected, as a selected image, based on the identified image performance quality metrics for the one or more overhead images; selecting, in response to determining that at least one overhead image can be selected, as a selected image, the at least one overhead image and outputting the at least one selected image for use in control of the mobile work machine and generating control signals to control the mobile work machine based, at least, on the at least one selected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Alexander C. Reiners, John P. Just, Eric M. Heien, Marcos Antonio de Jesus Filho, Matthew J. Burke
  • Publication number: 20250272963
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes obtaining, from one or more image providers, a set of one or more overhead images of a worksite, each overhead image including values indicative of a characteristic at different geographic locations across the worksite; identifying an image performance quality metric for each overhead image based on an image performance quality model; determining if at least one overhead image can be selected, as a selected image, based on the identified image performance quality metrics for the one or more overhead images; selecting, in response to determining that at least one overhead image can be selected, as a selected image, the at least one overhead image and outputting the at least one selected image for use in control of the mobile work machine and generating control signals to control the mobile work machine based, at least, on the at least one selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander C. REINERS, John P. JUST, Eric M. HEIEN, Marcos Antonio de Jesus Filho, Matthew J. Burke
  • Patent number: 12229886
    Abstract: Historical and seasonal data is obtained by an agricultural work machine. The historical data provides historical values of agricultural characteristics, which may or may not be geolocated, and the seasonal data provides seasonal values of agricultural characteristics corresponding to a current season. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts an agricultural characteristic, such as crop state, at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the historical values of agricultural characteristics in the historical data and based on the seasonal values of agricultural characteristics in the seasonal data at those different locations. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Noel W. Anderson, Eric M. Heien, Nathan R. Vandike
  • Publication number: 20230107444
    Abstract: Historical and seasonal data is obtained by an agricultural work machine. The historical data provides historical values of agricultural characteristics, which may or may not be geolocated, and the seasonal data provides seasonal values of agricultural characteristics corresponding to a current season. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts an agricultural characteristic, such as crop state, at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the historical values of agricultural characteristics in the historical data and based on the seasonal values of agricultural characteristics in the seasonal data at those different locations. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Noel W. Anderson, Eric M. HEIEN, Nathan R. VANDIKE