US Patent Issued to AGCO International on Feb. 3 for "Optimal path planning for an agricultural vehicle" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,860, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Optimal path planning for an agricultural vehicle" was invented by Rene Sondergaard Nilsson (Randers, Denmark), Kun Zhou (Randers, Denmark) and Kenneth Guldbrandt Lausdahl (Randers, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for planning an agricultural operation for an agricultural machine in a working environment. This Includes determining a boundary for the working environment; determining a plurality of boundary segments for the boundary; and determining, for each of the boundary segments, a candidate operational ...