US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 22 for "Generation and application of masks for farming implements of autonomous vehicles" (California, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,500, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Generation and application of masks for farming implements of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Charles McCauley Ross (Los Altos, Calif.), Jacob H. Goldstein (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Albert Elcano (Bakersfield, Calif.), Riley John Sleichter (Johnston, Iowa), Pooja Piyush Mehta (San Jose, Calif.) and Florin Cutu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system accesses a first set of images corresponding to the farming implement of the autonomous vehicle. Each image in the first set of images comprises pixels of the farming implement and a s...