ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,722, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Agricultural lane following" was invented by Ameer Ellaboudy (Newark, Calif.), Aubrey C. Donnellan (San Mateo, Calif.), Austin Chun (San Jose, Calif.), Igino C. Cafiero (Palo Alto, Calif.), David E. Bertucci (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Thuy T. Nguyen (Albany, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for agricultural lane following are described. For example, a method includes accessing range data captured using a distance sensor connected to a vehicle and/or image data captured using an image sensor connected to a vehicle; detecting a crop row based on ...