US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 9 for "Machine-learned tillage shank malfunction in an autonomous farming vehicle" (California, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,327, issued on June 9, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Machine-learned tillage shank malfunction in an autonomous farming vehicle" was invented by Divya Sharma (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Albert Elcano (Bakersfield, Calif.), Byron Gajun Ho (Fremont, Calif.), Jeremy Douglas Krantz (Polk City, Iowa), Tyler Calvin Niday (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Robert Joseph Plumeau (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system detects malfunctions in an autonomous farming vehicle during an autonomous routine using one or more models and data from sensors coupled to the autonomous farming vehicle. The models may include...