US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 29 for "Virtual safety bubbles for safe navigation of farming machines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,690, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Virtual safety bubbles for safe navigation of farming machines" was invented by Edward William Jeffcott Pell (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ugur Oezdemir (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous farming machine navigable in an environment for performing farming action(s) is disclosed. The farming machine receives a notification from a manager that there are no obstacles in the blind spots of the detection system. The farming machine applies an obstacle detection model to the captured images to verify that there are no obstacles in unobstructed view...