ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,945, issued on April 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Camera calibration tool" was invented by Nicholas C. Baltz (Port Byron, Ill.), Ashraf Qadir (Ankeny, Iowa) and Adam J. Royal (Urbandale, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera calibration tool for calibrating one or more cameras of a mobile machine comprising calibration targets and a net. Each of the calibration targets comprises identifiable indicia. The net is adapted to be coupled to the mobile machine. The net has one or more configurations that define predetermined target locations, with location markers, in a predetermined layout. The calibration target...