US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Dec. 16 for "Three dimensional grid map for cross member location and avoidance during an unloading operation" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,734, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Three dimensional grid map for cross member location and avoidance during an unloading operation" was invented by Sara C. O'Connor (Clive, Iowa), Kellen E. O'Connor (Clive, Iowa), Jeremy J. Faust (Grimes, Iowa) and Ryan R. White (Polk City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three dimensional grid map is generated to locate a cross member on a receiving vehicle which is coupled to a following vehicle. The location of the cross member is tracked during an unloading operation so the leading vehicle avoids the cross member when unloading material into the receiving ...