US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 16 for "System and method for automated odometry calibration for precision agriculture systems" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,492, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method for automated odometry calibration for precision agriculture systems" was invented by Lee Kamp Redden (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kent Anderson (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Edward William Jeffcott Pell (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and James Patrick Ostrowski (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: recording a first image of a first field region; automatically treating a plant within the first region in-situ based on the first image; automatically verifying the plant treatment with a second image of the first region; and automatical...