Patents Issued the Week of July 7-11

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U.S. Patent No. 12,353,208 entitled “System and Method for Optimized Perception Sensing in a Work Area Using Virtual Perimeters” issued July 8, 2025, to Deere & Company of Moline, Illinois, invented by Travis J. Davis of Polk City, Iowa. Abstract: A system and method are provided for distributed perception sensing via an object detection station arranged such that an associated one or more object detection sensors have respective fields of perception including at least a portion of a virtually defined perimeter extending at least partially about a working area. The object detection station detects a motion incident corresponding to a violation of the virtually defined perimeter, wherein a detected source of the motion incident is classified with respect to one or more defined source types, and one or more signals at least corresponding to the motion incident are wirelessly communicated to one or more working machines operating within the working area. At least one of the working machines may then be selectively transitioned from a normal operating mode to a hierarchical intervention mode with respect to the detected source and/or a relative position thereof within the working area.

U.S. Patent No. D1082,304 entitled “Storage Box” issued July 8, 2025, to Tractor Supply Co. of Texas, LP of Brentwood, Tennessee, Invented by Christian Fogg of Colombia, Tennessee, Jace McDill of Nashville, Tennessee and Petra Wei of Shanghai, China. Claim: The ornamental design for a storage box as shown and described.