ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,721, issued on May 19, was assigned to AGXEED HOLDING B.V. (Oirlo, Netherlands).
"Method for cultivating a piece of sloping farmland, and a method and system for generating a cultivation plan" was invented by Joris Jan Hiddema (Grubbenvorst, Netherlands) and Laurentius Hubertus Margaretha Schmitz (Mariahoop, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cultivating a piece of sloping farmland using an autonomous agricultural vehicle for performing an agricultural operation to attain the cultivating, the method including generating a cultivation plan for the piece of farmland, which plan includes multiple contiguous paths tha...