US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting early drought stress in plants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,532, issued on Sept. 16.

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting early drought stress in plants" was invented by John Benedict Allasas Estrada (Fresno, Calif.) and Pauline Victoria Allasas Estrada (Fresno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote inspection vehicle for inspecting a plant for early drought stress and a neural network model for calculating a score corresponding to a level of early drought stress in the plant. The inspection vehicle may be equipped with an inspection camera having a radiometric infrared sensor and a red, green, and blue light sensor to capture plant images. Image data from the inspection...