US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 24 for "Arrangement and method for the optical assessment of crop in a harvesting machine" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,194, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Arrangement and method for the optical assessment of crop in a harvesting machine" was invented by Peter Schade (Bad Durkheim, Germany), John P. Just (Ames, Iowa) and Ambarish Panambilly (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optical assessment of crop in a harvesting machine comprising: a camera configured to record an image of the crop; and an image processing system configured to receive the supplied image from the camera and a reference image and generate an output value based on a degree of similarity between the reference image ...