ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,499, issued on May 19, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for cooling sensor packages" was invented by Yueqi Li (San Jose, Calif.), Gabriella Levine (San Francisco) and Erich Schlaepfer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are disclosed for a cooling system for cooling sensor packages disposed on an agricultural vehicle, robot, etc. In various implementations, the cooling system includes: a reservoir containing a coolant; one or more sprayers to dispense the coolant from the reservoir at a target; a conduit that fluidly couples the reservoir with the one or more sprayers; and ...