ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,646, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Gesture-based systems for human following" was invented by Dhanashree Desai (Pune, India) and Satyam Nalawade (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for gesture-based systems for human following are described. For example, a method includes detecting a human in a first image captured using an image sensor connected to a vehicle; inputting the first image to a first machine learning model to obtain a first pose of the human; comparing the first pose to pose parameters for an authentication gesture; authenticating the human based on a match ...