US Patent Issued to Raven Industries on Aug. 4 for "Object detection and tracking for automated operation of vehicles and machinery" (Arizona, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,009, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Raven Industries Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Object detection and tracking for automated operation of vehicles and machinery" was invented by Rahul Ramakrishnan (Chandler, Ariz.), Aziz Alibasic (Waukee, Iowa), Thomas Antony (Ames, Iowa) and Venkata Rama Karthik Paga (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for safely operating autonomous machinery, such as vehicles and other heavy equipment, in an in-field or off-road environment, includes detecting, identifying, and tracking objects from on-board sensors configured with the autonomous machinery as it performs activities in either ...