ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,113, issued on July 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Plant group identification" was invented by Christopher Grant Padwick (Menlo Park, Calif.), William Louis Patzoldt (Gilroy, Calif.), Benjamin Kahn Cline (San Carlos, Calif.), Olgert Denas (San Jose, Calif.) and Sonali Subhash Tanna (Somerset, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming machine moves through a field and includes an image sensor that captures an image of a plant in the field. A control system accesses the captured image and applies the image to a machine learned plant identification model. The plant identification model identifies pixels representing ...