ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,186, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Autonomous driving system in the agricultural field by means of an infrared camera" was invented by Luca Di Cecilia (Modena, Italy), Luca Ferrari (Modena, Italy) and Nicola Lenzini (Pievepelago, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous driving method in the agricultural field by means of an thermal camera comprising the procedure of obtaining an interpolating function of at least two pixels, of alignments of plants or swaths of a thermal image that appears in front of an agricultural vehicle, acquired through at least one thermal camera, sa...