ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,242, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Track following system" was invented by Tobias Blume (Wolfenbuttel, Germany) and Lasse Neumann (Wolfenbuttel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A track following system is provided for an agricultural machine, in which tracks are identified in captured images and the visibility of the identified tracks at ground level is assessed. If the tracks are invisible at ground level, a track position is determined by converting from a track position corresponding to the position of the tracks visible in the captured image to a corrected track posit...