US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Jan. 27 for "Compensating for occlusions in a detection system of a farming machine" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,795, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Compensating for occlusions in a detection system of a farming machine" was invented by Christopher Grant Padwick (Menlo Park, Calif.), Chia-Chun Fu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anuradha Chandrashekar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Umabharathi Govindarajan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming machine is configured to identify and compensate for occlusions in the field of view of its image acquisition system. To do so, the machine captures an image using a first set of capture parameters associated with a first set of treatment results. The farming machine id...