ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,258, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Agricultural robot" was invented by Shunsuke Edo (Sakai, Japan), Takuya Tamai (Sakai, Japan), Jumpei Miyamoto (Sakai, Japan) and Tomoyoshi Sakano (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural robot includes a traveling body, a working unit on the traveling body to do work relating to a crop, an optical sensor on the traveling body, and a crop estimator to perform estimation of the crop based on sensor data obtained by the optical sensor. The crop estimator includes a data extractor to designate the crop to be subjected to the estimation based on the ...