US Patent Issued to AGCO International on Nov. 25 for "Automatic maneuvering of an agricultural vehicle at a farmyard" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,969, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Automatic maneuvering of an agricultural vehicle at a farmyard" was invented by Oliver Kaufmann (Marktoberdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically manoeuvring an agricultural vehicle to at least a predefined path segment at a farmyard comprising the steps of gathering all predefined path segments at the farmyard, determining all predefined path segments being free from an obstacle, selecting a free path segment from the predefined path segments being free from an obstacle and calculating a path from the position o...