ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,854, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Automated path parameter computation in generating a navigation path" was invented by Rana Shakti Singh (Ramgarh, India), Federico Pardina-Malbran (Fort Collins, Colo.), Ryan C. Russell (Orion, Ill.) and Bradley K. Yanke (Eldridge, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system identifies an obstacle in a field that is harvested by an agricultural harvester. A material transfer vehicle moves along with the agricultural harvester in order to receive harvested material from the agricultural harvester. The processing system calculates a location and offset cor...