Autonomous agricultural vehicle systems and methods

Art Unit 3661·Examiner TRIVEDI, ATUL·Filed Jan 9, 2025·Status since Apr 29, 2026

Applicant Moray Tecnologia Ltda.·Inventor Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio et al.

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Mailed Apr 29, 2026 · Non-Final Office Action · response window has passed

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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Office actions: 1
Pending claims: 20
References on file: 3
History through: 2026-04-29

Latest rejection: §103 [ground-103-1] claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

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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.

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.

Prior art consulted (3)

Identifier	Type	Name / Author	Link
US20210185885A1	patent publication	—	View ↗
US20210149406A1	patent publication	—	View ↗
US12207582	us patent	—	View ↗

Procedural framework (10)

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

Autonomous agricultural vehicle systems and methods

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