ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,055, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bilberry SAS (Gentilly, France).
"System and method for railway weeding" was invented by Aurelien Benoit-Levy (Gentilly, France), Loic Steunou (Gentilly, France) and Hugo Serrat (Gentilly, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weeding system for a railway weeding vehicle including at least one camera for mounting on a railway vehicle to acquire an image of a portion of a railway track while the railway vehicle is moving. The system also includes a spraying unit to be mounted on the railway vehicle, a control unit to receive images from the camera, generate a weed species detection signal an...