US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Nov. 18 for "Machine-learned obstruction detection in a farming machine" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,716, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Machine-learned obstruction detection in a farming machine" was invented by Rahul Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rajesh Radhakrishnan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brent William West (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system of a farming machine is configured to identify obstruction in a field from image data of the field. The control system accesses an obstruction model configured to identify obstructions in a field from image data of the field. The obstruction model is generated by accessing image data of obstructions in a training field,...