Autonomous agricultural vehicle systems and methods

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Mailed Apr 29, 2026 · Non-Final Office Action

The shortened statutory period ended Jul 29, 2026.

The examiner has rejected all twenty claims as obvious under 35 U.S.C. §103. Obviousness means the examiner believes a person skilled in the field could have arrived at the claimed invention by combining teachings from two prior patent publications: Sibley (US 2021/0185885) and Javault (US 2021/0149406). The examiner thinks these references, taken together, teach or suggest all the elements of the claims.

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Apr 29, 2026 · §103

Non-Final Office Action — all claims 1-20 rejected under §103 obviousness

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§ 103Obviousnessclaims 1-20
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Sibley, et al., US 2021/0185885 A1, in view of Javault, et al., US 2021/0149406 A1.
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Examiner theory
As per Claim 1, Sibley teaches a method for operating a vehicle (¶¶ 69-71), comprising: receiving, by the vehicle, a mission plan, the mission plan associated with one or more agricultural fields (¶¶ 68-69) and defining a travel path through the one or more agricultural fields, the travel path including a plurality of waypoints (¶¶ 69-70); identifying, by the vehicle, at least a first detection task to be performed (¶¶ 66-67; with sensors for temperature, humidity or barometric pressure); controlling a drive system of the vehicle to cause operation of a first set of wheels and a second set of wheels to cause the vehicle to move along the travel path between the waypoints (¶ 70; “such as a steering command, a throttle or propulsion command, and a braking command, into control signals (e.

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Identifier	Type	Name or author	Link
US20210185885A1	patent publication	—	View ↗
US20210149406A1	patent publication	—	View ↗
US12207582	us patent	—	View ↗

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MPEP§ 2146·§ 2159·§ 717.02·§ 804

Case lawIn Re Berg·In Re Goodman·In Re Longi·In Re Thorington·In Re Van Ornum·In Re Vogel

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