ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,026, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to 4AG Robotics Inc. (Salmon Arm, Canada).

"Machine-learning-enabled tool changer for mushroom crop management system" was invented by Peter Mankowski (Vernon, Canada), Vijaya Sankar Velayudham Jayashree (Salmon Arm, Canada) and Nathan Tomlinson (Enderby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic mushroom crop manager periodically or continuously receives mushroom bed data corresponding to a mushroom bed including growing mushrooms at a plurality of times. A trained mushroom bed model is used to process the mushroom bed data to generate mushroom bed state vectors respectively characterizing ...