ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,089, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Method, apparatus and system for agricultural vehicle monitoring" was invented by Mahesh S. Bothe (Pune, India) and Sagar V. Jadhav (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a stereo vision system of an agricultural vehicle comprising: receiving a communication signal relating to a parameter of the agricultural vehicle; acquiring, based on the state signal, an operational image of an agricultural operation of the agricultural vehicle; generating a disparity image from the operational image; determining a disparity of the disparity image...