ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,586, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Row detection system and agricultural machine" was invented by Yuma Arakawa (Sakai, Japan) and Mitsuaki Nagao (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row detection system includes first and second imaging devices to be mounted on an agricultural machine, and a processor configured or programmed to perform image processing for first and second images which are generated by the first and second imaging devices, respectively. The second imaging device is located so that at least a portion of each front wheel and at least a portion of each rear wheel are included ...