ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,014, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Automatically determining extrinsic parameters of modular edge computing devices" was invented by Elliott Grant (Woodside, Calif.), Sergey Yaroshenko (Newark, Calif.) and Gabriella Levine (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are disclosed for automatic commissioning, configuring, calibrating, and/or coordinating sensor-equipped modular edge computing devices that are mountable on agricultural vehicles. In various implementations, neighbor modular edge computing device(s) that are mounted on a vehicle nearest a given modular edge computing de...