US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 3 for "Cutting head harvesting loss detection and improvement system and method" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,010, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Cutting head harvesting loss detection and improvement system and method" was invented by Scott N. Clark (Bettendorf, Iowa), Rana Shakti Singh (Ramgarh, India) and Mehul Pankajkumar Bhavsar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine for reducing cutting head harvesting loss includes: ground engaging mechanisms such as wheels or tracks, a cutting head for harvesting crop, an image sensor configured to capture one or more images of a field of view, a light emitting device configured to emit light into the field of view, and a controller operativ...