ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,667, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Observing crop growth through embeddings" was invented by Daniel Ribeiro Silva (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for reducing the time and costs associated with the collection and processing of information for observing and evaluating crop growth. In various implementations, a temporal sequence of images depicting a growth of a crop over a time interval may be processed using a machine learning model. Based on the processing, a crop trajectory of image embeddings may be generated that represent the growth of the cr...