ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,580, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MacDon Industries LTD. (Winnipeg, Canada).
"Trailed implement with vision guidance" was invented by Daniel Flick (Sun Prairie, Wis.), Karl Hundt (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and Nolan Monhollen (Sun Prairie, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of navigating a vehicle through a field as it is being towed by a tractor. The method comprises obtaining an image of the field, segmenting the image to identify one or more crop rows, and steering the vehicle to avoid the one or more crop rows."
The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2021, under Application No. 17/499,237.
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