US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 1 for "Methods and apparatus to determine soft boundaries through variable confidence intervals" (Iowa, Wisconsin, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,253, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to determine soft boundaries through variable confidence intervals" was invented by Ryan Kirk (Urbandale, Iowa), Mo Fotouhi (Madison, Wis.), Jared Grove (Saint Charles, Iowa), Matthew Burke (Denver) and Benjamin Edward Bitzko (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to determine a boundary for vehicle operation in queried plot of land. An example apparatus includes circuitry to instantiate machine-readable instructions to: generate a first boundary based on a query for...