US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Jan. 20 for "Automated plant detection using image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,869, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Automated plant detection using image data" was invented by Lee Kamp Redden (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher Grant Padwick (Menlo Park, Calif.), Rajesh Radhakrishnan (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Patrick Ostrowski (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant treatment platform uses a plant detection model to detect plants as the plant treatment platform travels through a field. The plant treatment platform receives image data from a camera that captures images of plants (e.g., crops or weeds) growing in the field. The plant treatment platform ap...