US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Jan. 20 for "Automated image-based receiving vehicle boundary detection and control" (Iowa, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,245, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Automated image-based receiving vehicle boundary detection and control" was invented by Jeremy J. Faust (Grimes, Iowa), Kellen O'Connor (Urbandale, Iowa) and Matthew S. Woodall (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting machine is configured to gather harvested material into the harvesting machine during a harvesting operation. A conveyance subsystem configured to convey the harvested material from the harvesting machine to a receiving vehicle during the harvesting operation. An image capture system generates an image of the receiving vehicle a...