Patents by Inventor Holger Hoffmann

Holger Hoffmann 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: 12290063
    Abstract: Method for generating an application map (20) for treating a field with an agricultural equipment comprising the following steps: providing (S10) a field map (10) of a field to be treated; determining (S20) areas in the field map (10) with a weed and/or pest infestation by using an image classification algorithm; and generating (S30) an application map (20) specifying areas for treating the field with an agricultural equipment, wherein the application map (20) is based on the determined areas infested by weed and/or pest infestation; wherein the method further comprises the step of providing boundary data with respect to the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Agro Trademarks GmbH
    Inventors: Mauricio Lopes Agnese, Marek Piotr Schikora, Umit Baran Ilbasi, Holger Hoffmann, Thomas Rommel, Mirwaes Wahabzada, Sandra Selinger
  • Publication number: 20240357953
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing operation data for treatment devices (102, 104, 106, 107) on an agricultural field (112). wherein the treatment devices include at least a first treatment device (102) and a second treatment device (104) for treating the agricultural field, the method comprising the steps: obtaining field data for at least one section (113) of the agricultural field at least by the first treatment device, wherein the obtained field data indicates a monitoring and treatment status associated with the at least one section: based on the monitoring and treatment status associated with the at least one section providing operation data associated with the at least one section of the agricultural field for the second treatment device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Maik ZIES
  • Patent number: 12103684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the autonomous application of crop protection products by means of a drone. The present invention relates to a process and to an unmanned aerial vehicle for applying crop protection product taking into consideration drift phenomena. The present invention furthermore relates to a computer program product which can be employed for controlling the process according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: BASF AGRO TRADEMARKS GMBH
    Inventors: Ole Peters, Holger Hoffmann, Eva Hill
  • Publication number: 20240315230
    Abstract: A method for modifying a treatment performance for treating an agricultural field by an agricultural machine, whereas the method comprises a modification function and the agricultural machine comprises at least one treatment component, characterized in that the method having the steps of —Obtaining field data (S1, S10); —Determining a treatment performance by analyzing the field data (S2, S12); —Providing a treatment performance modification via the modification function and a representation parameter (S3, S13); —Modifying the treatment performance with the treatment performance modification (S4, S15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Carvin Guenther SCHEEL, Holger HOFFMANN, Clemens Christian DELATREE, Enzo Marcel GAUER, Steffen TELGMANN, Janis Joshua FALTMANN
  • Publication number: 20240298569
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method for determining and providing an application scheme for fertilizers, comprising the following steps: providing agricultural crop data (S10) comprising information about an agricultural crop species sown or planned to sow in a field; providing application time data (S20) comprising information about at least one planned application time of applying fertilizers in the field; providing nutrient specifier data (S30) comprising information about at least one nutrient specifier present or expected in the field; performing a database search in a fertilizer product database (S50) at least based on the provided agricultural crop data, the provided application time data, the provided nutrient specifier data and determining the fertilizer products matching the agricultural crop and the application time and one of the nutrient specifiers, wherein the fertilizer product database comprises information about a plurality of fertilizer products, and wherein the information about the fertilizer prod
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Mollie Jo HOSS-KUHNE, Bjoern KIEPE, Umit Baran ILBASI
  • Publication number: 20240284894
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing operation data for treatment devices for treating an agricultural field (14), wherein the treatment devices include at least a first treatment device (21) and a second treatment device (22) for treating the agricultural field (14), the method comprising the steps: obtaining field data for at least one section of the agricultural field at least from the first treatment device; based on the field data associated with the at least one section providing selection data for selecting the second treatment device associated with the at least one section of the agricultural field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Maik ZIES
  • Publication number: 20240276971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to targeted treatment of specific weed species with multiple treatment devices. Provided is a system and computer-implemented method for controlling operation of multiple treatment devices (102, 103, 104, 107) having treatment device configurations different to each other for treating an agricultural field (112). The method comprises analyzing field data, monitored as at least one of the multiple treatment devices (102, 103, 104, 107) traverses the field, to identify weed present at a certain field location (113) of the field (112) by weed species; and targeted instructing at least one treatment device (102, 103, 104, 107) among the multiple treatment devices (102, 103, 104, 107) that has a matching treatment device configuration for an identified weed species to treat the field (112) at the corresponding certain field location (113) against the identified weed species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Maik ZIES, Holger HOFFMANN
  • Publication number: 20240276902
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-device treatment of an agricultural field. Proposed is a computer-implemented method for treating an agricultural field (10). The method comprises the step of analyzing field data (S120), monitored as a first treatment device (100) traverses the field (SI 10), to determine whether the field (10) at a certain field location (10a) has a field condition which is treatable with a first device configuration of the first treatment device (100). If it is determined that the field at the certain field location associated with the respective field condition is treatable with the first device configuration of the first treatment device (100), the first treatment device (100) is controlled (S130) to treat the field at the certain field location (10a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Maik ZIES, Holger HOFFMANN, Daniel EBERSOLD
  • Publication number: 20240257275
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a control file usable for controlling an agricultural equipment based on at least one treatment parameter, comprising the following steps: (step 1) (110) providing genetic measurement data (40) of at least one organism which existed or is existing or is expected to exist in the agricultural field, (step 2) (120) providing treatment parameter data (42) for at least two treatment parameters capable of targeting the at least one organism, (step 3) (130) based on the treatment parameter data (42), providing first level efficacy data (44) comprising efficacies (“first level efficacies”) of the at least two treatment parameters relating to the at least one organism on a first level of the taxonomic rank, (step 4) (140) based on the treatment parameter data (42) and the first level efficacy data (44), determining a first ranking (46) of the at least two treatment parameters, (step 5) (150) providing an efficacy adjustment model (50), (step 6) (160) by modifying the first
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Dario MASSA
  • Patent number: 12026944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of precision farming. The present invention provides a method, a computer system and a computer program product with which a digital cultivation map for a field is created, said cultivation map comprising multiple zones, with at least one feature of at least one zone matched to at least one value of a machine working parameter that has been obtained from an image of the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Agro Trademarks GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Hoffmann, Christian Bitter, Ole Peters, Bjoern Kiepe
  • Publication number: 20240095622
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method for generating control data configured to be used or usable in an agricultural equipment for treating a field, comprising the following steps: (S10) providing crop data; (S20) providing field data; (S30)—optionally—providing historic treatment data; (S40)—optionally—providing environmental data; (S50) at least based on the crop data and on the field data, initiating and/or performing data processing in at least one database and/or database system, (S60) determining the nutrient-specific risk based on the result of the data processing, (S70) providing and/or determining the nutrient-specific threshold, (S80) determining, based on the nutri-ent-specific risk and the nutrient-specific threshold and based on the data processing in at least one treatment-related database, at least two treatment schedules capable of targeting the at least one nutrient, (S90) ranking the at least two treatment schedules, based on one or more of the specific statistics (Q1) to (Q28), (S100) outputting the
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Mollie Jo HOSS-KUHNE, Umit Baran ILBASI, Bjoern Kiepe
  • Publication number: 20240078479
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method for generating control data configured to be used or usable in an agricultural equipment for treating a field, comprising the following steps: (S10) providing crop data, wherein the crop data comprise information about an agricultural crop species providing crop data grown or sown or planned to be grown or sown in a field; (S20) providing field data, wherein the field data comprise information about the field; (S30)—optionally—providing historic treatment data, (S40)—optionally—providing environmental data, (S50) at least based on the crop data and on the field data, initiating and/or performing data processing in at least one database and/or database system, (S60) determining the organism-specific risk based on the result of the data processing, (S70) providing and/or determining the organism-specific threshold, (S80) determining, based on the organism-specific risk and the organism-specific threshold and based on the data processing in at least one treatment-related database, at
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Umit Baran ILBASI, Matthias GERBER
  • Publication number: 20240049697
    Abstract: A method for generating a control file to operate a treatment device (10) on an agricultural area (11) to be treated, the method comprising the steps of: providing (40) treatment data signifying a type of treatment to be conducted by the treatment device and crop data relating to a crop present on the agricultural area (11) to be treated to a preparation system (13); determining (42), by the preparation system (13), from the treatment data and the crop data at least one operation parameter, wherein the determined operation parameter is related to a real-time and/or location-specific condition to be monitored during treatment; generating (44), by the preparation system (13), a control file comprising the at least one operation parameter, the generated control file usable to operate the treatment device (10) based on the real-time and/or location-specific condition to be monitored during treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Hubert SCHMEER, Carvin Guenther SCHEEL, Marcel Enzo GAUER, Steffen TELGMANN, Clemens Christian DELATREE, Matthias GERBER, Holger HOFFMANN, Johannes Moritz STAEBLER
  • Publication number: 20240040954
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the planning and implementation of agricultural measures using remote sensing data and local field data. Using remote sensors, the total required amount and partial-area-specific required amounts of plant protection agents and/or nutrients and/or seeds and/or the like can be determined, and based on this information, the use of an application device can be planned. Using local field sensors, the current local required amounts in the field are determined so that the application device can apply the corresponding amounts as required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Ole JANSSEN, Holger HOFFMANN, Gang ZHAO, Subhashree DAS
  • Publication number: 20240016137
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining at least one of the treatment parameters selected from the group consisting of: a) at least one time window for a treatment in an agricultural field, b) at least one method for a treatment in an agricultural field, c) at least one product for a treatment in an agricultural field, d) at least one dose rate for a treatment in an agricultural field, and e) at least one application map for conducting a zone-specific treatment in an agricultural field, comprising the following steps: (step 1) providing genetic information of at least one organism which existed or is existing or is expected to exist in the agricultural field, (step 2) at least based on the genetic information of the at least one organism, initiating and/or performing data processing in at least one database and/or data-base system containing (i) genetic information data and (ii) data related to the at least one treatment parameter, (step 3) outputting the at least one treatment parameter based on the re
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Isabella SIEPE, Kristina BUSCH, Anja SIMON, Stefan TRESCH, Ingo MEINERS, Andreas JOHNEN, Holger HOFFMANN, Bjoern KIEPE
  • Publication number: 20240008388
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forecasting of a parameter value of a cultivation area, the method comprising: generating (S1), by an ensemble modelling structure, at least one first-model output parameter related to the cultivation area using ensemble modelling based on at least one first-model input parameter; generating (S2), by an machine learning structure, at least one second-model output parameter related to the cultivation area using machine learning based on at least one second-model input parameter; and merging (S3), by a model merging structure, the at least one first-model output parameter and the at least one first-model output parameter to calculate the parameter value of the cultivation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Ahmed Karim DHAOUADI, Manuel NOLTE, Diego Armando MORALES CEPEDA, Zhisheng QIN, Cho Miltin MBOH
  • Patent number: 11825835
    Abstract: The present application relates to the cultivation of crop plants using plant protection agents. Certain embodiments relate to methods, a system, and a computer program product for determining partial-area-specific requirements of a crop plant for plant protection agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BASF AGRO TRADEMARKS GMBH
    Inventors: Fabian Johannes Schäfer, Holger Hoffmann, Ole Peters, Gang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11818975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the planning and implementation of agricultural measures using remote sensing data and local field data. Using remote sensors, the total required amount and partial-area-specific required amounts of plant protection agents and/or nutrients and/or seeds and/or the like can be determined, and based on this information, the use of an application device can be planned. Using local field sensors, the current local required amounts in the field are determined so that the application device can apply the corresponding amounts as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: BASF Agro Trademarks GmbH
    Inventors: Ole Peters, Holger Hoffmann, Gang Zhao, Subhashree Das
  • Publication number: 20230360149
    Abstract: Computer implemented method for providing test design and test instruction data for comparative tests for yield and/or gross margin, efficacy and/or effects on certain vegetation indices on a field for one product comprising the following steps: providing field data (S10) comprising at least biomass distribution data and geographic data about the field on which the comparative tests are to be performed; providing test data (S20) comprising at least product use rate data about different constant product use rates of said product, and/or different variable product use rates of said product at a single application time or a sequence of application times of said product whose effect, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hubert Schmeer, Christian Comberg, Ritika Kohli, Gauraw Kumar, Christian Bitter, Holger Hoffmann, Maria Tackenberg, Jerome Casadebaig
  • Patent number: 11778939
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of controlling harmful organisms in the cultivation of cultivated plants. The present invention relates to a method for controlling harmful organisms, to a system for controlling harmful organisms and to the use of a digital application map for the application of one or more control agents against harmful organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BASF AGRO TRADEMARKS GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Hoffmann, Ole Peters, Eleen Grüneberg, Andreas Johnen, Andree-Georg Girg