Patents by Inventor Nicholas Witthoeft

Nicholas Witthoeft 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).

  • AGRICULTURAL SPRAYER WITH SPOT SPRAY CONTROL
    Publication number: 20260123621
    Abstract: An agricultural sprayer with a spot spray control system. Spray data together with one or more dynamic factors arising during operation of the agricultural sprayer and/or one or more sprayer-specific characteristics of the agricultural sprayer are used in real-time to control nozzles of the agricultural sprayer to control the spraying of a liquid from the nozzles. The nozzle control may include determining one or more of nozzle selection, nozzle state change timing, nozzle flow rate, and other operational characteristics of the nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Andrew Muehlfeld, Eric Taipale, Nicholas Witthoeft
  • PRECISION AGRICULTURE USING POSE GEOREFERENCED ANALTYICS
    Publication number: 20250261578
    Abstract: Precision agriculture methods and systems where drone images of an agricultural field are captured by a UAV and analyzed to generate information regarding the agricultural field. Items of interest are identified in the images, the pixel-space locations of the items of interest are determined, and the world-space locations of the items of interest are then determined using the pixel-space locations. The transformation from pixel-space location to world-space location occurs without transforming the images or processing transformed images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Muehlfeld, Henry Nelson, Ryan Nelson, Eric Taipale, Nicholas Witthoeft
  • Precision agriculture using pose georeferenced analytics
    Patent number: 12310274
    Abstract: Precision agriculture methods and systems where drone images of an agricultural field are captured by a UAV and analyzed to generate information regarding the agricultural field. Items of interest are identified in the images, the pixel-space locations of the items of interest are determined, and the world-space locations of the items of interest are then determined using the pixel-space locations. The transformation from pixel-space location to world-space location occurs without transforming the images or processing transformed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: SENTERA, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Muehlfeld, Henry Nelson, Ryan Nelson, Eric Taipale, Nicholas Witthoeft