US Patent Issued to BASF on Oct. 21 for "Quantifying biotic damage on plant leaves, by convolutional neural networks" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,862, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Quantifying biotic damage on plant leaves, by convolutional neural networks" 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), Jone Echazarra Huguet (Derio, Spain) and Ramon Navarra-Mestre (Limburgerhof, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To quantify biotic damage in leaves of crop plants, a computer receives (701A) a leaf-image taken from a particular crop plant. The leaf-image sh...