ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,514, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for modeling disease severity" was invented by Joseph Martin Russo (Bellefonte, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide systems and methods for simulating a disease outbreak based on a limited number of input parameters. In one embodiment, a disease severity level is computed based on a relationship between leaf wetness duration and average temperature during a wetness period. The resulting model can be a physical, deterministic model that accepts hourly weather data as input and outputs the most significant severity eve...