ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,528, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FJ Dynamics Technology Co. Ltd (Xiangyang, China).

"Image acquisition device and processing method for agricultural harvesting operation machine" was invented by Yong-Quan Shen (Xiangyang, China), Bo Wang (Xiangyang, China), Shun Fan (Xiangyang, China), Di Wu (Nanjing, China), Yuan Yao (Nanjing, China), Xiao Zhang (Xiangyang, China) and Rui Chen (Xiangyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition device and image processing method for an agricultural harvesting operation machine. The agricultural harvesting operation machine comprises a body and an image acquisition device; th...