US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Aug. 19 for "Pedestrian warning with light spectrum that does not affect camera based object detection at night" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,173, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Pedestrian warning with light spectrum that does not affect camera based object detection at night" was invented by Mark J. Cherney (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Zachary T. Bonefas (Grimes, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedestrian warning system for a work vehicle at a worksite that includes a sensor system that captures images of an identified target located at the worksite. An electronic data processor is communicatively coupled to the sensor system, and the electronic data processor determines whether the identified target from the captured image is an intended ...