US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on April 15 for "Non-transitory computer-readable media and devices for blade wear monitoring" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,692, issued on April 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Non-transitory computer-readable media and devices for blade wear monitoring" was invented by Sara Wendte (Moline, Ill.) and Jeremy J. Faust (Moline, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to obtain a first signal based on an input image using a trained machine learning model, the input image being an image of a plant cut by a blade, and the first signal indicating a wear level of the blade, determine whether a level...