US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on April 8 for "Agricultural systems and methods using image quality metrics for vision-based detection of surface conditions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,136, issued on April 8, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Agricultural systems and methods using image quality metrics for vision-based detection of surface conditions" was invented by Christopher Nicholas Warwick (Royston, Great Britain) and Jason Yip Jee Too (Trumpington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an agricultural method for monitoring surface conditions for an agricultural field includes receiving, with a computing system, an image of an imaged portion of an agricultural field, with the imaged portion of the agricultural field being represented by a plurality of pixels...