ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,538, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AUGMENTA AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGIES SMPC (Neas Ionias, Greece).

"Systems and methods for detecting, identifying, localizing, and determining the characteristics of field elements in agricultural fields" was invented by Alexandros Emmanouil Nikolakakis (Kifisia, Greece), Georgios Varvarelis (Volos, Greece), Aikaterini Karakoula (Athens, Greece) and Spyridon Evangelatos (Cholargos, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system usable with an agricultural operations vehicle as the agricultural operations vehicle moves through a field includes a stereoscopic multispectral imaging sensor con...