US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on April 21 for "Collision avoidance system for avoiding collision between movable components and portions of a work machine" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,985, issued on April 21, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Collision avoidance system for avoiding collision between movable components and portions of a work machine" was invented by Bryan J. Rausch (Durango, Iowa), Jeffery W. Dobchuk (Saskatoon, Canada) and Justin Sticksel (Galena, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine identifies a commanded trajectory of a point-of-interest on a movable element. An analysis system determines whether a protected part of the work machine is along the trajectory of the point-of-interest and, if so, identifies an actuator that moves the point-of-interest along the commanded tr...