US Patent Issued to AdaViv on Sept. 2 for "Crop scouting information systems and resource management" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,357, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to AdaViv (Somerville, Mass.).

"Crop scouting information systems and resource management" was invented by Thomas James Matarazzo (Astoria, N.Y.), Mohammad Mahmoudzadehvazifeh (Medford, Mass.) and Ian Shaun Seiferling (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for generating contextually rich plant images. A number of data captures of raw plant data are generated via a sensing unit configured to navigate a growing facility. Metadata is generated and assigned to the raw plant data including at least one of: plant location, timestamp, plant identification, plan...