ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,490, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Shandong Academy of Agricultural Machinery Sciences (Ji'an, China).
"Crop row detection device" was invented by Jingxin Shen (Shandong, China), Yongjia Sun (Shandong, China), Yitian Sun (Shandong, China), Qinglong Li (Shandong, China), Gang Chen (Shandong, China) and Zhiqi Zhang (Shandong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop row detection device and a navigation method fusing satellite positioning, including a bracket, a buffer mechanism and a angle sensing mechanism; both a left side and a right side of a front end of the bracket are rotatably connected with a support bar respectively;...