US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 24 for "Off-road machine-learned obstacle navigation in an autonomous vehicle environment" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,277, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Off-road machine-learned obstacle navigation in an autonomous vehicle environment" was invented by Travis J. Davis (Polk City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous off-road vehicle, upon encountering an obstruction while navigating a route, can apply a first machine-learned model to identify the obstruction. In the event that the first machine-learned model cannot identify the obstruction, the autonomous off-road vehicle can apply a second machine-learned model configured to determine whether or not the obstruction can be ignored, for instance based o...