US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Jan. 20 for "System and method for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,459, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle" was invented by Davorin Ikic (Stuttgart, Germany), Nico Schleweis (Donnbronn, Germany), Florian Reinmuth (Sinsheim, Germany), Rocio Galvez Castillo (Schwabisch Hall, Germany), Roman Walther (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Stephanie Kauker (Hemmingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for monitoring the surroundings of a vehicle (F) comprising sensing (S1) an object (O) in the surroundings of the vehicle (F) by means of at least one sensor device (S); determining (S2) ...