US Patent Issued to Bonsai Robotics on Dec. 23 for "Autonomous navigation in an orchard for harvesting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,860, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bonsai Robotics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Autonomous navigation in an orchard for harvesting" was invented by Tyler Niday (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Ugur Oezdemir (Danville, Calif.), Maciej Piotr Trzeciak (San Jose, Calif.), Rachit Aggarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Henry Fuller (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Kunal Saluja (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous harvesting machine for orchard operating environments is described. The autonomous harvesting machine uses machine vision techniques to identify and triangulate features in the operating environment using a stream of monocula...