US Patent Issued on Jan. 28 for "Diagnostic method and system for drip irrigation cotton with nitrogen nutrient deficit" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,005, issued on Jan. 28.

"Diagnostic method and system for drip irrigation cotton with nitrogen nutrient deficit" was invented by Ze Zhang (Shihezi, China), Xiangyu Chen (Shihezi, China), Xin Lv (Shihezi, China), Qiang Zhang (Shihezi, China), Lulu Ma (Shihezi, China) and Yiru Ma (Shihezi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a diagnostic method and system for drip irrigation cotton with nitrogen nutrient deficit. First, the sensitive leaf layer of cotton is determined according to the growth stage of cotton, and the spectral reflectance and biomass of each functional leaf in the sensitive leaf layer are collec...