ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,753, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural cutting system and cut-point method" was invented by Sai Bharathwaj (Bangalore, India), Jalam Singh (Bangalore, India), Pavithra Mathighata Nanjundaswamy (Bangalore, India), Nagarjun Pogakula Surya Prakash (Bangalore, India), Ridhwan Luthra (Bangalore, India), Shan Wan (Fremont, Calif.) and Pius Ng (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating an agricultural cut-point for an agricultural item includes capturing an image of the agricultural item, generating a depth estimation of the agricultural item, segmenting the image of t...