US Patent Issued to CNH INDUSTRIAL ITALIA on May 19 for "Autonomous control system of a weeding tool connected to an agricultural vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,723, issued on May 19, was assigned to CNH INDUSTRIAL ITALIA S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Autonomous control system of a weeding tool connected to an agricultural vehicle" was invented by Luca Di Cecilia (Modena, Italy) and Nicola Lenzini (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous control system of a weeding tool is connected to an agricultural vehicle. The weeding tool is configured to assume a weeding condition and a retracted condition. The autonomous control system includes a 3D sensor associated with a front part of the agricultural vehicle and configured to acquire a point cloud corresponding to a scenario in front o...