US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "Camera driven section control delay" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,001, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Camera driven section control delay" was invented by Robert T. Casper (Davenport, Iowa), Grant J. Wonderlich (Milan, Ill.) and Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patterned light from a visualization system mounted on a planter row unit is emitted onto a ground surface. A commodity and/or a product is deposited in the ground surface. Images of the projected patterned light on the trench with the commodity and/or product are captured with the visualization system. A controller determines whether the commodity captured in the image is a bounda...