US Patent Issued to BASF on May 20 for "Quantifying biotic damage on plants, by separating plant-images and subsequently operating a convolutional neural network" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,645, issued on May 20, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Quantifying biotic damage on plants, by separating plant-images and subsequently operating a convolutional neural network" was invented by Aranzazu Bereciartua-Perez (Derio, Spain), Artzai Picon Ruiz (Derio, Spain), Corinna Maria Spangler (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Christian Klukas (Limburgerhof, Germany), Till Eggers (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Ramon Navarra-Mestre (Limburgerhof, Germany) and Jone Echazarra Huguet (Derio, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In performing a computer-implemented method to quantify biotic damage in leaves of crop-plants, the ...