US Patent Issued to CIBO Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Method and apparatus for employing deep learning neural network to infer regenerative cover crop practices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,875, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CIBO Technologies Inc. (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

"Method and apparatus for employing deep learning neural network to infer regenerative cover crop practices" was invented by Ernesto Brau (Newton, Mass.), R. Shane Bussmann (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ethan Sargent (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for predicting a cropland data layer (CDL) for a current year includes: retrieving a first set of records from a historical CDL database, where the first set corresponds to sampled areas of a region taken over a period for a number of years; retrieving a second se...