# US 12,002,115 B2 · Digital modeling and tracking of agricultural fields for implementing agricultural field trials > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,002,115 B2 - Document ID: US12002115B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/111,795 - Filed: 2023-02-20 - Published: 2023-06-29 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2017-08-21 - Assignees: Climate LLC - Applicants: Climate LLC - Inventors: Jason Kendrick Bull; Nicholas Charles Cizek; Brandon Rinkenberger; Thomas Gene Ruff; Doug Sauder - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12002115B2 ## CPC - G06Q 50/02: Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining - A01B 79/005: {Precision agriculture} - F24F 11/49: ensuring correct operation, e.g. by trial operation or configuration checks - G01C 11/025: {by scanning the object} - G01N 33/24: Earth materials (G01N33/42 takes precedence) - G06N 7/01: Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks - G06Q 10/06393: {Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis} - A01B 69/00: Steering of agricultural machines or implements; Guiding agricultural machines or implements on a desired track - G06N 3/126: Evolutionary algorithms, e.g. genetic algorithms or genetic programming - Y02A 40/10: in agriculture - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - A01B: SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL (making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring A01C5/00; mowers convertible to soil working apparatus or capable of soil working A01D42/04; mowers combined with soil working implements A01D43/12; soil working for engineering purposes E01, E02, E21) - F24F: AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING (removing dirt or fumes from areas where they are produced B08B15/00; vertical ducts for carrying away waste gases from buildings E04F17/02; tops for chimneys or ventilating shafts, terminals for flues F23L17/02) - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) - G01N: INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing apparatus or processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q) - G06N: COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS - Y02A: TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ## Abstract A system for implementing a trial in one or more fields is provided. In an embodiment, a agricultural intelligence computing system receives field data for a plurality of agricultural fields. Based, at least in part, on the field data for the plurality of agricultural fields, the agricultural intelligence computing system identifies one or more target agricultural fields. The agricultural intelligence computing system sends, to a field manager computing device associated with the one or more target agricultural fields, a trial participation request. The server receives data indicating acceptance of the trial participation request from the field manager computing device. The server determines one or more locations on the one or more target agricultural fields for implementing a trial and sends data identifying the one or more locations to the field manager computing device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A computer-implemented method, comprising: based on an agricultural implement performing an agricultural activity with respect to one or more target agricultural fields of a plurality of agricultural fields: receiving data corresponding to the agricultural activity from one or more field sensors or one or more sensors integrated with the agricultural implement; determining, based on the received data, compliance of the one or more target agricultural fields with a trial; in response to determining that the one or more target agricultural fields are not in compliance with the trial, generating a warning at a cab computer associated with the agricultural implement, the warning indicating that the one or more target agricultural fields are not in compliance with the trial; and adjusting, by the cab computer associated with the agricultural implement, based on the trial for the one or more target agricultural fields, the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement with regard to the one or more target agricultural fields. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein generating the warning includes causing displaying, through a graphical user interface executing on a field manager computing device, the warning. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement includes correcting planting activity being performed by the agricultural implement in the one or more target agricultural fields, so that the one or more target agricultural fields are in compliance with the trial. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement includes correcting an application being performed by the agricultural implement in the one or more target agricultural fields, so that the one or more target agricultural fields are in compliance with the trial. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement includes correcting the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement while the agricultural implement is in the one or more target agricultural fields, to thereby bring the one or more target agricultural fields into compliance with the trial. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement includes modifying operation of the agricultural implement while the agricultural implement is in the one or more target agricultural fields, to thereby bring the one or more target agricultural fields into compliance with the trial. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement includes stopping operation of the agricultural implement prior to the agricultural implement performing the agricultural activity in the one or more target agricultural fields. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to the warning, identifying one or more additional locations of the one or more target agricultural fields which would allow the one or more target agricultural fields to be in compliance with the trial. ### Claim 9 A system, comprising: an agricultural intelligence computing system having one or more processors; a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors of the agricultural intelligence computing system, cause the one or more processors to: based on an agricultural implement performing an agricultural activity with respect to one or more target agricultural fields of a plurality of agricultural fields: receive data corresponding to the agricultural activity from one or more field sensors or one or more sensors integrated with the agricultural implement; determine, based on the received data, a compliance of the one or more target agricultural fields with a trial; and in response to determining that the one or more target agricultural fields are not in compliance with the trial, generate a warning indicating that the one or more target agricultural fields are not in compliance with the trial; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions, which when executed by at least one processor of a cab computer associated with the agricultural implement, cause the at least one processor of the cab computer to, in response to the warning, adjust the agricultural activity being performed by the agricultural implement with regard to the one or more target agricultural fields. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors of the agricultural intelligence computing system, further cause the one or more processors to transmit the warning to a field manager computing device. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, further comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions, which when executed by at least one processor of the field manager computing device, cause the at least one processor of the field manager computing device to display the warning through a graphical user interface executing on the field manager computing device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the warning includes an icon displayed on a map of the one or more target agricultural fields. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors of the agricultural intelligence computing system, further cause the one or more processors to stop operation of the agricultural implement prior to the agricultural implement performing the agricultural activity in the one or more target agricultural fields. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors of the agricultural intelligence computing system, further cause the one or more processors to modify operation of the agricultural implement while the agricultural implement is in the one or more target agricultural fields, to thereby bring the one or more target agricultural fields into compliance with the trial. ### Claim 15 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors of the agricultural intelligence computing system, further cause the one or more processors to, in response to the warning, identify one or more additional locations of the one or more target agricultural fields which would allow the one or more target agricultural fields to be in compliance with the trial. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the agricultural activity includes planting activity and/or treatment activity.