ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,352, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Realistic plant growth modeling" was invented by Kangkang Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Bodi Yuan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhiqiang Yuan (San Jose, Calif.), Hong Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Daniel Ribeiro Silva (San Jose, Calif.) and Zihao Li (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for realistic plant growth modeling and various applications thereof. In various implementations, a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) digital images that capture, over time, one or more of a particular type of plant based on one or more machine learning mo...