US Patent Issued to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY on Sept. 16 for "Methods for mapping temporal and spatial stability and sustainability of a cropping system" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,627, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Methods for mapping temporal and spatial stability and sustainability of a cropping system" was invented by Bruno Basso (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Crop modeling methods can be used for mapping temporal and spatial stability and sustainability of a cropping system. In some methods, remote sensing imagery over multiple time series elements (such as for past growing seasons) is used to characterize small-scale field stability and variability relative to larger surrounding land areas. In some methods, ...