US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 15 for "Detecting untraversable environment and preventing damage by a vehicle" (California, Tennessee, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,404, issued on July 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Detecting untraversable environment and preventing damage by a vehicle" was invented by Lee Kamp Redden (Palo Alto, Calif.), Divya Sharma (San Jose, Calif.), Kent Michael Anderson (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Bryon William Majusiak (Incline Village, Nev.), Benjamin Ray Chostner (San Francisco) and James Patrick Ostrowski (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle moves through an environment (e.g., a farming, construction, mining, or forestry environment) and performs one or more actions in the environment. Portions of the environment may include m...