US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Feb. 11 for "Automated ground leveling using artificial neural network" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,764, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Automated ground leveling using artificial neural network" was invented by Tien-Chuong Lim (Grovetown, Ga.), Christopher T. McCord (Thomson, Ga.) and Benjamin Seth Peavy (Harlem, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface grading system includes a traction unit and a scraper implement attached thereto via a three-point hitch system. A controller automatically controls an actuator of the three-point hitch system to automatically adjust a position of the scraper implement relative to the traction unit to automatically profile the ground surface to achieve a desi...