ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,850, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CNH Industrial Italia S.p.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Method for managing an agricultural vehicle during harvesting process in a plantation of fruit trees, such as an orange orchard" was invented by Luca Di Cecilia (Turin, Italy) and Mauricio Blanco Infantini (Nova Lima, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing an agricultural vehicle during harvesting process in a plantation of fruit trees, the vehicle being shaped as a portal capable of moving over a crop row and provided with a couple of rotors arranged to work simultaneously on opposite sides of each plant of the crop row, the met...