US Patent Issued to Colorado State University Research Foundation on Aug. 12 for "Methods and compositions for tracking vegetation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,917, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Methods and compositions for tracking vegetation" was invented by Chad A. Kinney (Pueblo, Colo.), James Carsella (Pueblo West, Colo.), Brian Vanden Heuvel (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and David Boston (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for tracking vegetation through the production and distribution cycle, and for distinguishing between plants or crops having different characteristics."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2019, under Application No. 17/049,9...