US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 23 for "Automatically generating turns on an agricultural work machine based upon field geometry" (Iowa, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,208, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Automatically generating turns on an agricultural work machine based upon field geometry" was invented by Michael A. Torzewski (Waukee, Iowa), Noel R. Menard (Kyle, Texas) and Simon W. Schaefer (Ankeny, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a turn generation system that identifies a turn start point and turn end point that indicate the starting point and ending point, respectively, of a turn that the agricultural machine will make to transition from a current pass to a subsequent pass. The guidance system identifies a turn contour an...