US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 11 for "Work vehicle guidance and/or automation with respect to identified regions of interest in a work area" (North Carolina, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,970, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Work vehicle guidance and/or automation with respect to identified regions of interest in a work area" was invented by David A. Johnson (Durham, N.C.), Matthew D. Hansen (Urbandale, Iowa), Ajit K. Thankappan Pillai (West Des Moines, Iowa) and Michael A. Torzewski (Waukee, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for automatically conforming guidance of work vehicles to detected conditions in a work area. Upon determining a deviation of a work vehicle's current movement path from a first planned movement path with resp...