ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,581, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Operator assistance system" was invented by Martin Peter Christiansen (Randers, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling operation of an operator assistance system for an agricultural machine. Image data is received from a thermal imaging sensor associated with the agricultural machine, where the thermal imaging sensor has an imaging region which, at least in part, includes a portion of the agricultural machine. The image data from the sensor is analysed to determine a thermal characteristic for th...