ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,832, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CNH INDUSTRIAL ITALIA S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).
"Implement control for agricultural vehicles" was invented by Luca Ferrari (Modena, Italy), Fabio Lisurici (Modena, Italy) and Andrea Rizzi (Costermano Sul Garda, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an implement moved by an agricultural vehicle driving over a path along a crop row includes using a point cloud sensor to scan a portion of the crop row and to generate a point cloud. Multiple crop row volumes arranged along the portion of the crop row are determined. For each crop row volume, a vertical point density distribution ...