US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Aug. 25 for "Automatic field boundary generation" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,323, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Automatic field boundary generation" was invented by Travis J. Davis (Polk City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spectral image data representative of contents of a field is accessed via sensors of a vehicle being manually operated in the field. The spectral image data includes visible spectrum image data and non-visible spectrum image data. Portions of the field that include crops are identified by applying a machine-learned model to the accessed spectral data. The model is configured to classify portions of the visible spectrum image data as including crops an...