US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Oct. 14 for "Automatic fill control based on visual identification of grain receiving vehicles" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,851, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Automatic fill control based on visual identification of grain receiving vehicles" was invented by Kellen O'Connor (Grimes, Iowa), Scott Miller (Ankeny, Iowa), Jeremy J. Faust (Grimes, Iowa) and Zachary T. Bonefas (Grimes, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera captures an image of a portion of a cart and accesses stored maps that map visual features of carts to a set of settings that are applied to an automatic fill control system. A map that matches visual features of the cart, in the captured image, is identified and the settings in that map are applied...