US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 22 for "Semantic segmentation to identify and treat plants in a field and verify the plant treatments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,389, issued on July 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Semantic segmentation to identify and treat plants in a field and verify the plant treatments" was invented by Andrei Polzounov (San Francisco), James Patrick Ostrowski (Mountain View, Calif.), Lee Kamp Redden (Palo Alto, Calif.), Olgert Denas (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chia-Chun Fu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chris Padwick (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming machine including a number of treatment mechanisms treats plants according to a treatment plan as the farming machine moves through the field. The control system of the farming machine executes a...