US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 29 for "System and method for visually representing subterranean objects of interest in a field of view display for a work area" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,563, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method for visually representing subterranean objects of interest in a field of view display for a work area" was invented by Giovanni A Wuisan (Epworth, Iowa), Kurt A. Chipperfield (Dubuque, Iowa) and Taylor Xia (Dubuque, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system and method are provided for preventing avoidable engagement with subterranean objects during operations by work machines comprising ground-engaging work implements. Electronically mapped position data are determined for subterranean objects of interest (SOI) in an area to be...